Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan
Book cover

Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend

Examining Its Suitability as a Model

  • Book
  • © 2012

Overview

Editors:
  1. Karl Widerquist
    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Michael W. Howard
    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee (BIG)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Introduction: Success in Alaska

      • Karl Widerquist, Michael W. Howard
      Pages 3-11

  3. The History, Economics, and Politics of the Alaska Model

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
      Download chapter PDF

    2. The Improbable but True Story of How the Alaska Permanent Fund and the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend Came to Be

      • Cliff Groh, Gregg Erickson
      Pages 15-39

    3. How the APF and the PFD Operate: The Peculiar Mechanics of Alaska’s State Finances

      • Gregg Erickson, Cliff Groh
      Pages 41-48

    4. The Economic and Social Impacts of the Permanent Fund Dividend on Alaska

      • Scott Goldsmith
      Pages 49-63

    5. Politics, the Preservation of Natural Resource Wealth, and the Funding of a Basic Income Guarantee

      • James B. Bryan, Sarah Lamarche Castillo
      Pages 65-83

    6. Risk and the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend

      • Michael A. Lewis
      Pages 85-98

    7. Permanent Perhaps: Challenges to the Model in Alaska in Its First 30 Years

      • Gregg Erickson, Cliff Groh
      Pages 99-114

    8. Critical Reflections on the Future of Alaska’s Permanent Fund and Dividend

      • Karl Widerquist, Michael W. Howard
      Pages 115-119

  4. The Ethics of the Alaska Model

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Left-Libertarianism and the Resource Dividend

      • Ian Carter
      Pages 123-139

    3. Basic Income and the Alaska Model: Limits of the Resource Dividend Model for the Implementation of an Unconditional Basic Income

      • Almaz Zelleke
      Pages 141-155

    4. Stakeholding through the Permanent Fund Dividend: Fitting Practice to Theory

      • Christopher L. Griffin Jr.
      Pages 157-168

    5. The Alaska Model: A Republican Perspective

      • David Casassas, Jurgen De Wispelaere
      Pages 169-188

    6. Climate Change, Complicity, and Compensation

      • Stephen Winter
      Pages 189-204

    7. Why Link Basic Income to Resource Taxation?

      • Michael W. Howard, Karl Widerquist
      Pages 205-218

  5. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Conclusion: Lessons from the Alaska Model

      • Karl Widerquist, Michael W. Howard
      Pages 221-227
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

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. The book also looks at possible ways that the model might be altered and improved.

Reviews

"Few income distribution mechanisms are as strikingly original or widely discussed as the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend. Written by first-rate experts, this volume offers the first comprehensive overview of its history, operation, achievements, and limits. This book could not have been more timely, as new tax-and-transfer models are being considered, tried, and discussed throughout the world." - Yannick Vanderborght, professor of Political Science, Facultes Saint-Louis Brussels & Louvain University, Belgium

"A wide-ranging and enjoyable romp through a great deal of intellectual territory . . . An excellent and long overdue examination of a significant and unique government program." - Eastern Economic Journal

About the authors

Karl Widerquist is Associate Professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He holds two doctorates—one in Political Theory from Oxford University (2006) and one in Economics from the City University of New York (1996). He is coauthor of Economics for Social Workers, coeditor of The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee, coeditor of Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend: Assessing its Suitability as a Model (Palgrave Macmillan), and coeditor of Exporting the Alaska Model: Adapting the Permanent Fund Dividend for Reform around the World (Palgrave Macmillan). He is a founding editor of the journal Basic Income Studies and has published scholarly articles on economics, politics, and philosophy in journals such as Political Studies, Utilitas, Eastern Economic Journal, Politics and Society, and Politics, Philosophy, and Economics.

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation