Exporting the Alaska Model
Adapting the Permanent Fund Dividend for Reform around the World
1st Edition
Published on 19. February 2016
XIX, 291 pages
978-1-137-03165-5 (ISBN)
Description
This timely book examines how the "Alaska model" can be adapted for use elsewhere, examining issues of implementation and showing that this model can be employed even in resource-poor areas in the industrialized and in the industrializing world.
Reviews / Votes
"The Alaska Permanent Fund has reached its 30th anniversary and is one of the world's unsung innovations in social and economic policy. It offers a route to income redistribution and prompts realistic thoughts of more ambitious schemes to provide universal basic income security. This book is an important contribution to what should be a much more widespread debate about the Fund's role and potential." - Guy Standing, professor of Economic Security, University of Bath
"A wide-ranging and enjoyable romp through a great deal of intellectual territory . . . An excellent and long overdue examination of a significant and unique government program." - Eastern Economic Journal
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan US
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XIX, 291 p.
File size
7,02 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-137-03165-5 (9781137031655)
DOI
10.1057/9781137031655
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
K. Widerquist | M. Howard
Exporting the Alaska Model
Adapting the Permanent Fund Dividend for Reform around the World
Book
08/2012
Palgrave MacMillan
€106.99
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Persons
Ayelet Banai
Jason Berntsen
Angela Cummine
Gary Flomenhoft
Christopher L. Griffin, Jr.
Cliff Groh
Jay Hammond
Alanna Hartzok
Jason Hickel
Paul Segal
Larry Smith
Hamid Tabatabai
Content
Introduction
Exporting an Idea; K.Widerquist & M.Howard PART I: EXPANSION OF THE MODEL USING EXISTING FUNDS AND DIVIDENDS
The Iranian Resource Dividend; H.Tabatabai Overcoming Dividend Skepticism: Why the World's Sovereign Wealth Funds are Not Paying Dividends; A.Cummine Room for Improvement? Assessing the Strengths and Shortcomings of the Alaska Model in Advance of Export; A.Hartzok What Happens to the Permanent Fund Dividend and the Rest of Alaska's Unique Fiscal System as Oil Production Continues to Fall?; C.Groh
PART II: WIDER APPLICATION OF THE MODEL Applying the Alaska model in a Resource-Poor State: The Example of Vermont; G.Flomenhoft A Worldwide Resource Dividend and its Effects on World Poverty; P.Segal Constituting the Commons: Oil and Development in Post-Independence South Sudan; J.Hickel Introduction to Chapter 9: Jay Sterner Hammond: Egalitarian philosopher, Alaska Governor; L.Smith The Ideal Solution: A Plan for Iraq?; J.Hammond A Cap on Carbon and a Basic Income:A Defensible Combination in the United States?; M.W.Howard A Permanent Endowment for the United States; K.Widerquist Exporting the Alaska Model to Alaska: How Big Could the Permanent Fund Be if the State Really Tried? And Can a Larger Fund Insulate an Oil-Exporter from the End of the Boom?; K.Widerquist PART III: A HYBRID PROPOSAL WITH COMMENTARY
Citizens' Capital Accounts: A Proposal; K.Widerquist A Jubilee Tax for Citizens' Capital Accounts; M.W.Howard Widerquist on Citizens' Capital Accounts; J.Bernsten Freedom, Development and Oil: Citizens' Capital Accounts for Iraq; A.Banai Citizens' Capital Accounts: A Comment; C.L.Griffin, Jr Reply to Comments; K.Widerquist PART IV: CONCLUSION
The Alaska Model as a Menu of Options; K.Widerquist & M.W.Howard
