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 bookexplores 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. KARL WIDERQUISTVisiting Associate Professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He is co author of 'Economics for Social Workers and the Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee', as well as an editor of the 'Journal Basic Income Studies'. MICHAEL HOWARDProfessor of Philosophy at the University of Maine, USA,specializing in social and political philosophy. INDICE: IntroductionChapter 1: Introduction: Success in AlaskaKarl Widerquist and Michael W. HowardPart One: The History, Economics, and Politics of the Alaska ModelChapter 2: The Improbable but True Story of How the Alaska Permanent Fund and the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend Came to BeCliff Groh and Gregg EricksonChapter 3: How the APF and the PFD Operate: the Peculiar Mechanics of Alaska's State FinancesCliff Groh and Gregg EricksonChapter 4: The Economic and Social Impacts of the Permanent Fund Dividend on AlaskaScott GoldsmithChapter 5: Politics, Preservation of Natural Resource Wealth, and the Funding of aBasic Income GuaranteeJames B. Bryan and Sarah Lamarche CastilloChapter 6: Risk and the Alaska Permanent Fund DividendMichael A. LewisChapter 7: Permanent Perhaps: Challenges to the Model in Alaska in its First 30 YearsGregg Ericksonand Cliff GrohChapter 8: Critical Reflections on the Future of Alaska's Permanent Fund and DividendKarl Widerquist and Michael W. HowardPart Two: the ethics of the Alaska modelChapter 9: Left-libertarianism and the Resource DividendIan CarterChapter 10: Basic Income and the Alaska Model: Limits of the ResourceDividend Model for the Implementation of an Unconditional Basic IncomeAlmaz ZellekeChapter 11: Stakeholding Through the Permanent Fund Dividend: Fitting Practice to TheoryChristopher L. Griffin, Jr.Chapter 12: The Alaska Model: A Republican PerspectiveDavid Casassas and Jurgen De WispelaereChapter 13: Climate Change, Complicity & CompensationStephen WinterChapter 14: Why Link Basic Income to Resource Taxation?Karl Widerquist and Michael W. HowardConclusionChapter15: Conclusion: Lessons from the Alaska ModelKarl Widerquist and Michael W. HowardBibliography

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11207-0
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 15/03/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés