Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend Examining

Contributors discuss the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) and Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) as a model both for resource policy and for social policy. This book explores 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 at higher prices. The book also looks at possible ways that the model might be altered and improved. The contributors look back at the success of the APF and forward (using theory and empirical investigation) to see how the Alaska model can be of use in other places.

Karl Widerquist is an associate professor of Philosophy with Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He is coauthor of Economics for Social Workers and coeditor of the Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee, as well as an editor of the journal Basic Income Studies. Michael W. Howard is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Maine, specializing in social and political philosophy.

Previous Publications	p. vii
List of Figures and Tables	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction
Introduction: Success in Alaska	p. 3
The History, Economics, and Politics of the Alaska Model
The Improbable but True Story of How the Alaska Permanent Fund and the Alaska Permanent FundDividend Came to Be	p. 15
How the APF and the PFD Operate: The Peculiar Mechanics of Alaska's State Finances	p. 41
The Economic and Social Impacts of the Permanent Fund Dividend on Alaska	p. 49
Politics, the Preservation of Natural Resource Wealth, and the Funding of a Basic Income Guarantee	p. 65
Risk and the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend	p. 85
Permanent Perhaps: Challenges to the Model in Alaska in its First 30 Years	p. 99
Critical Reflections on the Future of Alaska's Permanent Fund and DividendcKarl Widerquist	p. 115
The Ethics of the Alaska Model
Left-Libertarianism and the Resource Dividend	p. 123
Basic Income and the Alaska Model: Limits of the Resource Dividend Model for the Implementation of an Unconditional Basic Income	p. 141
Stakeholding through the Permanent Fund Dividend: Fitting Practice to Theory	p. 157
The Alaska Model: A Republican Perspective	p. 169
Climate Change, Complicity, and Compensation	p. 189
Why Link Basic Income to Resource Taxation?	p. 205
Conclusion
Conclusion: Lessons from the Alaska Model	p. 221
Bibliography	p. 229
Contributors	p. 249
Index	p. 253
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