The fur trade
Readings and other material for this week:
– Chapter 7 of Hageman, Anya, and Pauline Galoustian. “Economic Aspects of the Indigenous Experience in Canada.” (2020).
– Wien, Thomas. “Selling Beaver Skins in North America and Europe, 1720-1760: The Uses of Fur-Trade Imperialism.” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association/Revue de la Socit historique du Canada 1.1 (1990): 293-317.
-Video: First 15 minutes of The Other Side of the Ledger: An Indian View of the Hudson’s Bay Company (Though certainly feel free to watch more if interested!)
– Carlos, Ann, and Frank Lewis. “Indians, the Beaver and the Bay: The Economics of Depletion in the Lands of the Hudsons Bay Company, 1700-1763.” Journal of Economic History 53 (1993): 465-494.
– Demsetz, Harold. “Toward a Theory of Property Rights.” Papers and Proceedings of the Seventy-ninth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association 57.2 (1967): 347-359.
