Eight articles have made the shortlist for the 2026 Elinor Ostrom Prize, which will be announced at the WINIR Conference on Private and Public Institutions for Good Governance Rome, Italy (22-24 July 2026). The award will be announced at the conference dinner.
The winners of the Reviewer of the Year Prize for 2025, awarded by the editors of the Journal of Institutional Economics in recognition of their outstanding service, are Randall Holcombe (Florida State University, USA), Sinclair Davidson (RMIT University, Australia) and Clara Jean (Grenoble Ecole de Management, France).
The joint winners of the 2025 Elinor Ostrom Prize are Erwin Dekker and Blaž Remic for their outstanding article “Hayek’s Extended Mind: On the (Im)possibility of Austrian Behavioral Economics” JOIE 20(e19) and Paul Lewis and Paul Dragos Aligica for their outstanding article “The Ostroms on Self-governance: the Importance of Cybernetics” JOIE 20(e23)…
Six articles have made the shortlist for the 2025 Elinor Ostrom Prize, which will be announced at the WINIR Conference on Institutions, Entrepreneurship & Shared Prosperity in Prague, Czechia (10-12 September 2025). The award will be announced at WINIR 2025 in Prague, Czechia.
With a turnout of 32.87%, the WINIR Council election results are in: we are pleased to announce that Massiliano Vatiero, Paolo Silvestri, Nadia von Jabobi, and Daniel Cole will be joining Richard Langlois, David Gindis, Francesca Gagliardi, and Lyndal Keeton in the new WINIR Council, which will be inaugurated on 1 March 2024.
We are pleased to report that the WINIR Council election has generated a lot of interest: 12 nominations from candidates spanning 4 continents were received by the due date of 18 January 2024. The ballot will open on 1 February and close on 15 February, with the new Council starting to work on 1 March 2024.
The winners of the Reviewer of the Year Prize for 2024, awarded by the editors of the Journal of Institutional Economics in recognition of their outstanding service, are Christopher Coyne (George Mason University, USA), Daniil Frolov (Volgograd State Technical University, Russia) and Fiona Nunan (University of Birmingham, UK).
The winner of the 2024 Elinor Ostrom Prize is Jon Murphy (Western Carolina University, USA) for his outstanding article that uses a cascading network failure model to show how expert failures can cascade not only within fields, but beyond them into multiple sectors.
All Council positions — President, Secretary, Treasurer, Publicity Officer, and four ordinary Council positions — will be up for renewal in early 2024. Council members are expected to take active role in steering the network, organizing events, seeking out new partnerships, and more. All WINIR members are eligible to stand in the election.
Four articles have made the shortlist for the 2024 Elinor Ostrom Prize, which will be announced at the WINIR Conference on Institutional Resilience & Recovery in Pittsburgh, USA (19-21 September 2024). The award will be announced at WINIR 2024 in Pittsburgh, USA.