Memorial Nobel Prize in economics is awarded to anti-trust and deregulation expert Oliver Williamson; co-winner Elinor Ostrom earned her bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. degrees at UCLA. Read more on 2009 Nobel winner Elizabeth Blackburn of UCSF and other UC Nobel laureates.
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