Americans win Nobel Prize in economics

Two Americans have been awarded the Nobel Prize for economics, including Elinor Ostrom, the first woman to win the prize since its founding in 1968. Steve Henn reports.

A computer screen showing the pictures of Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson as the winners of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2009 at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. (Bertil Ericson/AFP/Getty Images)

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