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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. Edited By Karl Widerquist and Michael W. Howard Introduction Chapter 1: Introduction: Success in Alaska Karl Widerquist and Michael W. Howard Part One: The History, Economics, and Politics of the Alaska Model Chapter 2: The Improbable but True Story of How the Alaska Permanent Fund and the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend Came to Be Cliff Groh and Gregg Erickson Chapter 3: How the APF and the PFD Operate: the Peculiar Mechanics of Alaska’s State Finances Cliff Groh and Gregg Erickson Chapter 4: The Economic and Social Impacts of the Permanent Fund Dividend on Alaska Scott Goldsmith Chapter 5: Politics, Preservation of Natural Resource Wealth, and the Funding of a Basic Income Guarantee James B. Bryan and Sarah Lamarche Castillo Chapter 6: Risk and the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend Michael A. Lewis Chapter 7: Permanent Perhaps: Challenges to the Model in Alaska in its First 30 Years Gregg Erickson and Cliff Groh Chapter 8: Critical Reflections on the Future of Alaska’s Permanent Fund and Dividend Karl Widerquist and Michael W. Howard Part Two: the ethics of the Alaska model Chapter 9: Left-libertarianism and the Resource Dividend Ian Carter Chapter 10: Basic Income and the Alaska Model: Limits of the Resource Dividend Model for the Implementation of an Unconditional Basic Income Almaz Zelleke Chapter 11: Stakeholding Through the Permanent Fund Dividend: Fitting Practice to Theory Christopher L. Griffin, Jr. Chapter 12: The Alaska Model: A Republican Perspective David Casassas and Jurgen De Wispelaere Chapter 13: Climate Change, Complicity & Compensation Stephen Winter Chapter 14: Why Link Basic Income to Resource Taxation? Karl Widerquist and Michael W. Howard Conclusion Chapter 15: Conclusion: Lessons from the Alaska Model Karl Widerquist and Michael W. Howard Bibliography
