The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

for 2009 goes to Oliver Williamson, “for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm” and Elinor Ostrom, a political scientist, “for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons”. Steven Levitt of Freakonomics thinks this means that “the prize is moving toward a Nobel in Social Science, not a Nobel in economics.”