Exporting the Alaska model: adapting the permanent fund dividend for reform around the world

This book examines the feasibility of exporting the Alaska model (the Alaska Permanent Fund and the Permanent Fund Dividend) to other places and for other kinds of resources. INDICE: 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 andits 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.

• ISBN: 978-1-1370-0659-2
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 24/07/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido