Elinor Ostrom, left, and Oliver E. Williamson. AFP/Getty ImagesOstrom, Williamson Win Nobel Prize for Economics -- Wall Street Journal
Two American economists, Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson, who study the way decisions are made outside the markets on which many other economists focus, were awarded the Nobel Prize in economics Monday.
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