Exporting the Alaska Model: Adapting the Permanent Fund Dividend for Reform around the World

by Karl Widerquist (Editor)

Introduction Exporting an Idea; K.Widerquist & M.Howard PART EXPANSION OF THE MODEL USING EXISTING FUNDS AND DIVIDENDS The Iranian Resource Dividend; H.Tabatabai Overcoming Dividend 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 WIDER APPLICATION OF THE MODEL Applying the Alaska model in a Resource-Poor The Example of Vermont; G.Flomenhoft A Worldwide Resource Dividend and its Effects on World Poverty; P.Segal Constituting the Oil and Development in Post-Independence South Sudan; J.Hickel Introduction to Chapter 9: Jay Sterner Egalitarian philosopher, Alaska Governor; L.Smith The Ideal A Plan for Iraq?; J.Hammond A Cap on Carbon and a Basic A Defensible Combination in the United States?; M.W.Howard A Permanent Endowment for the United States; K.Widerquist Exporting the Alaska Model to 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 A HYBRID PROPOSAL WITH COMMENTARY Citizens' Capital A Proposal; K.Widerquist A Jubilee Tax for Citizens' Capital Accounts; M.W.Howard Widerquist on Citizens' Capital Accounts; J.Bernsten Freedom, Development and Citizens' Capital Accounts for Iraq; A.Banai Citizens' Capital A Comment; C.L.Griffin, Jr Reply to Comments; K.Widerquist PART CONCLUSION The Alaska Model as a Menu of Options; K.Widerquist & M.W.Howard

Genres: Philosophy, Economics

312 pages, Paperback

First published August 7, 2012

About the author

Karl Widerquist is a Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University-Qatar. He specializes in distributive justice: the ethics of who has what. He is an interdisciplinary scholar who holds two doctorates, one in Normative Political Theory (Oxford University 2006) and one in Economics (the City University of New York 1996). His writing and research cross the disciplines of philosophy, politics, economics, anthropology, and the philosophy of social science. He has published dozens of scholarly articles and eleven books including Universal Basic Income: Essential Knowledge, the Problem of Property, the Prehistory of Private Property, A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments; Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy; and Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income: A Theory of Freedom as the Power to Say No. Much of his writing is about Universal Basic Income. He was a founding editor of the journal Basic Income Studies, cofounder of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network, and cochair of the Basic Income Earth Network. The Atlantic Monthly called him “a leader of the worldwide Basic Income movement.”
Website: www.widerquist.com
Twitter: @KarlWiderquist
Email: Karl@widerquist.com

Reviews

[Brent Ranalli · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ground-breaking book, and timely.