Synopses & Reviews
Discussing the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) and Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) as a model both for resource policy and for social policy, contributors explore whether other states, nations, or regions would benefit from an Alaskan-style dividend. Many other jurisdictions could create similar funds and dividends, but most of them under-tax resources, giving resources away to corporations who sell them back to the people. Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend looks back at the success of the APF and PFD, and it looks forward (using theory and empirical investigation) to see how the Alaska model can be of use in other places and how the model might be altered and improved.
Synopsis
An examination of the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) and Permanent Fund Dividend as a model both for resource policy and for social policy
About the Author
Karl Widerquist is an associate professor at SFS-Qatar, Georgetown University. He is coauthor 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 Howard is professor of Philosophy at the University of Maine, specializing in social and political philosophy.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Introduction: Success in Alaska; Karl Widerquist and Michael W. HowardPART I: 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 EricksonChapter 3: How the APF and the PFD Operate: the Peculiar Mechanics of Alaska's State Finances; Cliff Groh and Gregg EricksonChapter 4: The Economic and Social Impacts of the Permanent Fund Dividend on Alaska; Scott GoldsmithChapter 5: Politics, Preservation of Natural Resource Wealth, and the Funding of a Basic Income Guarantee; James B. Bryan and Sarah Lamarche CastilloChapter 6: Risk and the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend; Michael A. LewisChapter 7: Permanent Perhaps: Challenges to the Model in Alaska in its First 30 Years; Gregg Erickson and Cliff GrohChapter 8: Critical Reflections on the Future of Alaska's Permanent Fund and Dividend; Karl Widerquist and Michael W. HowardPART II: THE ETHICS OF THE ALASKA MODEL
Chapter 9: Left-libertarianism and the Resource Dividend; Ian CarterChapter 10: Basic Income and the Alaska Model: Limits of the Resource Dividend Model for the Implementation of an Unconditional Basic Income; Almaz ZellekeChapter 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 WispelaereChapter 13: Climate Change, Complicity and Compensation; Stephen WinterChapter 14: Why Link Basic Income to Resource Taxation? Karl Widerquist and Michael W. HowardConclusion
Chapter 15: Conclusion: Lessons from the Alaska Model; Karl Widerquist and Michael W. HowardBibliography