Flanagan documents how successful First Nations are achieving prosperity

The Wealth of First Nations, by Tom Flanagan, published by the Fraser Institute, is one of this year's five finalists for the prestigious Donner Prize, the best public policy book of the year. Here's an excerpt.

Tom Flanagan, pictured at the Manning Centre's conferenc in Ottawa in 2012. 'In the preceding years, I had done a number of specialized studies on the theme of First Nations’ prosperity, published on the websites of the Frontier Centre and the Fraser Centre. I wanted to pull all this research together into a more coherent whole, and that became the book.'The Hill Times file photograph by Jake Wright

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BY Tom Flanagan

May 25, 2020

Prior to the 19th century, the large majority of human beings lived in what today would be considered poverty. In all complex societies, an elite stratum used its control of political and economic institutions to enjoy a varied diet, clean water, formal education, and relief from long hours of manua...

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