Economic History and Indigenous Peoples in North America
综述了经济学家对北美原住民经济史的研究，指出文献多聚焦1800年后原住民的被剥夺与衰落，但作者认为原住民在北美经济史中具有更核心的地位，研究他们能修正我们对经济发展的理解。
I summarize the current state of economists’ contributions to the economic history of Indigenous Peoples in North America. After briefly providing some context, I describe the current state of the literature, which is dominated by studies focusing on the period post-1800, over 300 years after contact. With a few exceptions, the literature largely paints a story of dispossession and decline after a golden era of economic interdependence in the fur trade. While valuable, I suggest this story is just a glimpse of something substantively more significant and fundamental to the economic history of North America. Understanding the centrality of Indigenous Peoples in North American economic history broadly and of Indigenous Peoples’ continued existence as economic actors offers yet unseen opportunities to revise our understanding of North American economic development. Beyond this, studying Indigenous North American history offers new opportunities to understand and reimagine how nations and economic systems rise, fall, interact with changing ecological systems, and persist in the face of dramatic change.