Property Rights and Indian Economies

by Terry L. Anderson

Most research on American Indian economies seeking to explain why Indians have remained near the bottom of the economic ladder has concentrated on resource endowments. This approach has focused policy attention on creating government programs to expand resource exploitation either by encouraging non-Indians to develop reservation resources or by directly enhancing reservation physical and human capital stocks. However, these policies have ignored...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847677087
• ISBN13: 9780847677085
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages