Introduction / Rick Colbourne and Robert B. Anderson -- Invitation to ethical space: a dialogue on sustainability and reconciliation / Reg Crowshoe and David Lertzman -- Coyote learns commerce / Joseph Scott Gladstone -- Resistance to 'development' amongst the Kogui of the Sierra Nevada de Santa...

This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Beginning with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth...