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1 online resource |
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The Resources for the Future library collection |
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Resources for the Future library collection
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; Chapter I. SOME FIRST IMPRESSIONS; An Analytical Approach to the Future; Part I-Main Strands of the Pattern; Chapter II. THE GREAT LAND; General Land Forms, Climate and Surface Characteristics; Fish and Wildlife-Alaska's Basic Wealth; Minerals-The Alaskan Punch Board; Other Principal Land Resources; Water Power-A Possible Catalyst to Development; The Changing Natural Resource Endowment; The Political Ecology of Resource Development; Chapter III. MAJOR DEVELOPMENT STRANDS |
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Native AlaskaColonial Alaska; Military Alaska; Part 2-Transition-The Fifties and Statehood; Chapter IV. THE NINETEEN FIFTIES-A TOTAL PATTERN; Population, Employment, and Income Trends and Patterns; Regional Dimensions; The Social Situation; Some Dreams and Realities; Chapter V. POLITICAL DETERMINISM-AN ALASKAN VERSION; The Role of Government and Dual Responsibility; Colonial Administration-American Style; The Elaboration of Territorial Administration; The Statehood Movement and Political Determinism; Statehood Achieved-Institutional and Policy Rearrangements; Unfinished Business |
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Part 3-The New State Faces LifeChapter VI. A MATTER OF MONEY; The Cost of Government-Transition from Territory to State; Development vs. Living within Our Means-The Road Case; Special Interests vs. the General Interest-The Employment Security Case; The Budget Process and the Public Will; Chapter VII. A MATTER OF EXPECTATION; The Military-Short-Run Expectations; Natural Resources-Some Longer-Run Expectations; An International Alaska-Some Long-Range Expectations; Chapter VIII. A MATTER OF DIRECTION; Special Interests-The Alaska Lobby Past and Present; The General Public Interest |
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Alaska's Future-A Matter of DirectionConclusion; Chapter IX. THE FUTURE OF ALASKA |
| Summary |
This book is both a discussion of key decisions Alaskans must make in coming years and a case study of problems of public finance and policy that accompany shifts in power. Originally published in 1962 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
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Economic history
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| SUBJECT |
Alaska -- Economic conditions
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| Subject |
Alaska
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135999469 |
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1135999465 |
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