Exporting the Alaska Model

Adapting the Permanent Fund Dividend for Reform Around the World
2012. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-00659-2
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 291 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Widerquist, K.

Howard, M.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensfinanzen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Rechtswissenschaften Steuerrecht Unternehmenssteuerrecht, Investitionszulage
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Ayelet Banai

Jason Berntsen

Angela Cummine

Gary Flomenhoft

Christopher L. Griffin, Jr.

Cliff Groh

Jay Hammond

Alanna Hartzok

Jason Hickel

Paul Segal

Larry Smith

Hamid Tabatabai