Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend: Examining Its Suitability as a Model

By Michael W. Howard

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349294233
• ISBN13: 9781349294237
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"