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Alaska's permanent fund dividend Examining its suitability as a model /

Contributors discuss the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) and Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) as a model both for resource policy and for social policy. This book explores whether other states, nations, or regions would benefit from an Alaskan-style dividend. The book also looks at possible ways that the m...

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Group Author: Widerquist, Karl.; Howard, Michael Wayne, 1952-
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation > History.
Transfer payments > Alaska.
Subsidies > Alaska.
Dividends > Alaska.
Natural resources > Alaska.
Public finance > Alaska.
International finance > Alaska.
Finance and Accounting.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137015020
Summary: Contributors discuss the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) and Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) as a model both for resource policy and for social policy. This book explores whether other states, nations, or regions would benefit from an Alaskan-style dividend. The book also looks at possible ways that the model might be altered and improved.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230112070, 2012.
Carrier Form: 288 p.
ISBN: 9780230112070
9781137015020 :
1137015020 :
CLC: F810.45
Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Introduction: Success in Alaska Karl Widerquist and Michael W. Howard Part One: The History, Economics, and Politics of the Alaska Model Chapter 2: The Improbable but True Story of How the Alaska Permanent Fund and the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend Came to Be Cliff Groh and Gregg Erickson Chapter 3: How the APF and the PFD Operate: the Peculiar Mechanics of Alaska's State Finances Cliff Groh and Gregg Erickson Chapter 4: The Economic and Social Impacts of the Permanent Fund Dividend on Alaska Scott Goldsmith Chapter 5: Politics, Preservation of Natural Resource Wealth, and the Funding of a Basic Income Guarantee James B. Bryan and Sarah Lamarche Castillo Chapter 6: Risk and the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend Michael A. Lewis Chapter 7: Permanent Perhaps: Challenges to the Model in Alaska in its First 30 Years Gregg Erickson and Cliff Groh Chapter 8: Critical Reflections on the Future of Alaska's Permanent Fund and Dividend Karl Widerquist and Michael W. Howard Part Two: the ethics of the Alaska model Chapter 9: Left-libertarianism and the Resource Dividend Ian Carter Chapter 10: Basic Income and the Alaska Model: Limits of the Resource Dividend Model for the Implementation of an Unconditional Basic Income Almaz Zelleke Chapter 11: Stakeholding Through the Permanent Fund Dividend: Fitting Practice to Theory Christopher L. Griffin, Jr. Chapter 12: The Alaska Model: A Republican Perspective David Casassas and Jurgen De Wispelaere Chapter 13: Climate Change, Complicity & Compensation Stephen Winter Chapter 14: Why Link Basic Income to Resource Taxation? Karl Widerquist and Michael W. Howard Conclusion Chapter 15: Conclusion: Lessons from the Alaska Model Karl Widerquist and Michael W. Howard Bibliography.

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