Title Exporting the Alaska model : adapting the permanent fund dividend for reform around the world / edited by Karl Widerquist and Michael W. Howard ; contributors, Ayelet Banai [and thirteen others]

Edition First edition Published New York, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (313 pages) : illustrations Series Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee Exploring the basic income guarantee. Contents Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Other Books by the Editors; List of Figures and Tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Exporting an Idea; Part I Expansion of the Model Using Existing; 2 From Price Subsidies to Basic Income: The Iran Model and Its Lessons; 3 Overcoming Dividend Skepticism: Why the World's Sovereign Wealth Funds are Not Paying Dividends; 4 Room for Improvement? Assessing the Strengths and Shortcomings of the Alaska Model in Advance of Export 5 What Happens to the Permanent Fund Dividend and the Rest of Alaska's Unique Fiscal System as Oil Production Continues to Fall?Part II Wider Application of the Model; 6 Applying the Alaska model in a Resource-Poor State: The Example of Vermont; 7 Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend as a Model for Reducing Global Poverty; 8 Constituting the Commons: Oil and Development in Postindependence South Sudan; 9 The Ideal Solution: A Plan for Iraq?; 10 A Cap on Carbon and a Basic Income: A Defensible Combination in the United States?; 11 A Permanent Endowment for the United States 12 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?Part III A Hybrid Proposal with Commentary; 13 Citizens' Capital Accounts: A Proposal; 14 A Jubilee Tax for Citizens' Capital Accounts; 15 Widerquist on Citizens' Capital Accounts; 16 Freedom, Development, and Oil: Citizens' Capital Accounts for Iraq; 17 Citizens' Capital Accounts: A Comment on Contributions; 18 Reply to Comments; Part IV Conclusion; 19 The Alaska Model as a Menu of Options; Bibliography Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL Print version record Subject Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation. SUBJECT Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation fast Subject Special funds -- Alaska Dividends -- Alaska Special funds. Dividends. International economics. Political economy. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Public Finance. Dividends Special funds Alaska Form Electronic book Author Widerquist, Karl, editor Howard, Michael Wayne, 1952- editor. Banai, Ayelet, contributor ISBN 9781137031655 1137031654 1137006595 9781137006592 9781137031358 1137031352

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