Jonathan B. Taylor

Jonathan Taylor is a research fellow at the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, and a senior policy scholar at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona.

Mr. Taylor has provided expertise to tribes and bands in the United States and Canada in the areas of strategic management and economic development. Mr. Taylor has worked in a wide variety of institutional and cultural contexts and on a wide variety of projects. These projects have included assessing changes in quality of life due to major enterprise success (including casino gaming), designing tax regimes, assisting in constitutional evaluation and reform, providing public policy analysis and negotiation support in the context of resource development, valuing non-market attributes of natural resources, and educating tribal executives. At present, he is studying the national evidence on the socioeconomic effects of Indian gaming on Indians and non-Indians. He has authored or supported testimony in litigation and in public hearings for a number of Native American groups needing economic analysis to support treaty rights or tribal policies.

Mr. Taylor holds an A.B. in politics from Princeton University (1986) and an M.P.P. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (1992). Recent publications include:

“Social and Economic Consequences of Indian Gaming in Oklahoma,” American Indian Culture and Resource Journal, (with K. Grant and K. Spilde), forthcoming.

“Improving the Chances for Success in Tribally Owned Enterprises,” (with K. Grant) in Jorgensen, M. R., ed., Resources for Nation-Building: Strategies, Cases, and Tools for American Indian Economic Development (Tucson: University of Arizona Press), forthcoming.

“A Comparative Analysis of Tribal and Indigenous Community Enterprises,” (with K. Grant, R. Lopez, and J. Austin), Jan. 2004.

Contact:
Tel. (617) 480-2074
Email: jonathan@taylorpolicy.com

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