Six articles made the short list of the this year’s Elinor Ostrom Prize:

Stefan Voight (2024) (a) “Determinants of Social norms I – the Role of Geography” JOIE 20(e5) and (b) “Determinants of Social Norms II – Religion and Family as Mediators” JOIE 20(e10).

Erwin Dekker and Blaž Remic (2024), “Hayek’s Extended Mind: On the (Im)possibility of Austrian Behavioral Economics” JOIE 20(e19).

Sinclair Davidson (2024), “The Economic Institutions of Artificial Intelligence” JOIE 20(e22).

Andrés Dean (2024), “Worker Takeovers: a Comparative Analysis of Employee Buyouts, Other Worker-managed Firms, and Conventional Firms in Uruguay” JOIE 20(e22).

Paul Lewis and Paul Dragos Aligica (2024), “The Ostroms on Self-governance: the Importance of Cybernetics” JOIE 20(e23).

Niclas Berggren and Christian Bjørnskov (2024), “Economic Freedom and Academic Freedom Across Nations” JOIE 20(e26).

The author(s) of the winning article will receive £1,500. The announcement will be made at WINIR 2025 in Prague, Czechia.

The members of the 2025 Ostrom Prize Committee are: Luca Andriani, Maria Brouwer, David Dequech, Elodie Douarin, Brett Frischmann, Robbert Maseland, Jon Murphy, Sheilagh Ogilvie, and Edella Schlager.

Learn more about the Elinor Ostrom Prize here.