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On Monday, American Elinor Ostrom became the first woman ever to win the Nobel Prize in Economics for research she conducted demonstrating how communities of all types can act together for the common good when confronted with a shortage of resources, challenging the notion that when finite resources go unregulated by public or private institutions they will be used up. The inspiration for her research? World War II victory gardens. During the war, many communities in the U.S. and Britain worked together to grow food. “My mother had a victory garden during the war,” Ostrom, who shares the prize with Oliver Williamson, says, “so I learned all about growing vegetables and preserving them by canning.”