Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend [electronic resource] : Examining Its Suitability as a Model /
Widerquist, K.editor.
Howard, M.editor.
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.
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Previous Publications; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Introduction: Success in Alaska; Part I The History, Economics, and Politics of the Alaska Model; 2 The Improbable but True Story of How the Alaska Permanent Fund and the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend Came to Be; 3 How the APF and the PFD Operate: The Peculiar Mechanics of Alaska's State Finances; 4 The Economic and Social Impacts of the Permanent Fund Dividend on Alaska
5 Politics, the Preservation of Natural Resource Wealth, and the Funding of a Basic Income Guarantee6 Risk and the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend; 7 Permanent Perhaps: Challenges to the Model in Alaska in Its First 30 Years; 8 Critical Reflections on the Future of Alaska's Permanent Fund and Dividend; Part II The Ethics of the Alaska Model; 9 Left-Libertarianism and the Resource Dividend; 10 Basic Income and the Alaska Model: Limits of the Resource Dividend Model for the Implementation of an Unconditional Basic Income
11 Stakeholding through the Permanent Fund Dividend: Fitting Practice to Theory12 The Alaska Model: A Republican Perspective; 13 Climate Change, Complicity, and Compensation; 14 Why Link Basic Income to Resource Taxation?; Conclusion; 15 Conclusion: Lessons from the Alaska Model; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation
Business enterprises—Finance.
Macroeconomics.
International economics.
Accounting.
Economic policy.
Finance, Public.
Business Finance.
Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.
International Economics.
Financial Accounting.
Economic Policy.
Public Finance.