The Examined Path Through Indigenous approaches to wealth and sharing

Many indigenous economies organized wealth around relationships and obligations rather than individual accumulation — the potlatch, the communal land tenure, the obligation to distribute surplus. These were not failures to develop a market economy; they were different answers to the question of what wealth is for. Encountering them honestly requires setting aside the assumption that accumulation is the natural endpoint of economic reasoning.

The course sequence, in order.

Each step builds on the last.