Elinor Ostrom was both a groundbreaking thinker and one of the foremost economists of our age. The first and only woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics, her revolutionary theorizing of the commons opened the way for non-capitalist economic alternatives on a massive scale. And yet, astonishingly, most modern radicals know little about her. This book fixes that injustice, revealing the indispensability of her work on green politics, alternative economics, and radical democracy.--Publisher's description.

Derek Wall teaches political economy at Goldsmiths College, University of London and is the International Coordinator of the Green Party of England and Wales. He is the author of six books, including Economics After Capitalism, also published by Pluto Press.