Two “Two Ostrom” Problems
考察埃莉诺·奥斯特罗姆作为跨学科学者的学术轨迹,分析她成为首位女性诺贝尔经济学奖得主后其贡献被重新解读的方式,揭示双重职业伴侣中女性面临的独立学术生涯困境以及诺贝尔奖对职业生涯事后评价的显著影响。
Abstract This article considers the institutional and intellectual trajectory of Elinor Ostrom as an interdisciplinary scholar in the postwar period and how her contributions have been reframed after she became the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics. Two distinct but interrelated historiographical problems influence our perceptions of Ostrom. The first relates to the difficulties women face in dual-career partnerships that often affect their ability to establish independent academic careers and gain fair recognition for contributions to shared research programs. How Ostrom negotiated these challenges highlights the many and often hidden constraints professional women face. The second problem is how to gauge or weight the work of the Ostrom who was a multidisciplinary scholar of the commons with that of the Ostrom who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Exploring her trajectory in public choice over a half century makes apparent the remarkable force a Nobel Prize exerts on post hoc appraisals of a career.