Comparative models of American Indian economic development

Capitalist versus cooperative in the United States and Canada

Bibliographic Data

ID2360945
AuthorsW Rose (0000-0001-9757-6230, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, corresponding author), Samuel Rose (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
Year2014
Volume34
Issue4
Pages377-396
Publication date2014-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritique of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-275X • E-ISSN: 1460-3721
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0308275x14531835
OpenAlexW2323673007
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited17

The purpose of this article is to use a comparative case study method to evaluate the different existing economic development practices of American Indian peoples in the United States and Canada. The basis of comparison is the organizational structure of businesses with the comparison being between capitalist and cooperative forms. The goal is to understand how organizational type (or mode of production) is connected to the production of contemporary culture and social relations. The main conclusion is that, while not equivalent to traditional indigenous economies, cooperative structures are closer than capitalist ones to facilitating and reproducing traditionalist forms of sociality and cultural production

Economic system · Economics · Economy · Indigenous · Mode of production · Organizational structure · Political economy · Political science · Production (economics · Relations of production · Sociality · Sociology · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · World Systems and Global Transformations

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