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Author: K. Widerquist
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012-02-29
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780230112070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContributors 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.
Author: K. Widerquist
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012-08-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781137006592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Todd Moss
Publisher: CGD Books
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 1933286709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReliance on natural resource revenues, particularly oil, is often associated with bad governance, corruption, and poverty. Worried about the effect of oil on Alaska, Governor Jay Hammond had a simple yet revolutionary idea: let citizens have a direct stake. The Governor's Solution features his first-hand account that describes, with brutal honesty and piercing humour, the birth of the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend, which has been paid to each resident every year since 1982. Thirty years later, Hammond's vision is still influencing oil policies throughout the world. This reader, part of the Center for Global Development's Oil-to-Cash initiative, includes recent scholarly work examining Alaska's experience and how other oil-rich societies, particularly Iraq, might apply some of the lessons. It is as a powerful reminder that the combination of new ideas and determined individuals can make a tremendous difference --even in issues as seemingly complex and intractable as fighting the oil curse.
Author: Todd Moss
Publisher: CGD Books
Published: 2015-06-10
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1933286695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOil to Cash explores one option to help countries with new oil revenue avoid the so-called resource curse: just give the money directly to citizens. A universal, transparent, and regular cash transfer would not only provide a concrete benefit to regular people, but would also create powerful incentives for citizens to hold their government accountable. Oil to Cash details how and where this idea could work and how policymakers can learn from the experiences with cash transfers in places like Mexico, Mongolia, and Alaska.
Author: Alaska Legislative Affairs Agency
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Published: 2013
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ISBN-13: 9781304117380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter Barnes
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 2014-08-04
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 1626562164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeter Barnes argues that because of globalization, automation, and winner-take-all capitalism, there won’t be enough high-paying jobs to sustain America’s middle class in the future. Therefore, to survive economically, our middle class needs—and deserves—a supplementary source of nonlabor income. To meet this need, Barnes proposes to give every American a share of the wealth we own together— starting with our air and financial infrastructure. These shares would pay dividends of several thousand dollars per year—money that wouldn’t be welfare or wealth redistribution but legitimate property income.
Author: K. Widerquist
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-02-14
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 1137015020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContributors 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.
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 160
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brian C. Johnson
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Published: 2021-09-28
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1506470750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerica's economy does not currently live up to our country's core values. We are a nation founded on the ideals of coming together across differences to forge a common future. Yet over the past fifty years, our economy has been pulling us apart at unprecedented rates. By allowing top income earners and the wealthiest Americans to hoard wealth like almost never before, we belie what makes our country great. This is a threat to our well-being, our democracy, and our values. Brian C. Johnson combines accessible scholarship on wealth and income inequality in America with deeply personal accounts of six Americans of diverse backgrounds who are each wrestling with what it means to survive and thrive in this new economic world. In so doing, he offers a solution that is as visionary as it is practical. Dubbed the Citizen Dividend, this revolutionary model assumes that economic growth is built off of the wealth we have created together as a country, and together we all reap its benefits. In Our Fair Share, Johnson lays the groundwork for implementing this solution, detailing what the Citizen Dividend is, offering examples of similar existing models, outlining the benefits of such systems, tackling some of the common concerns that arise, and offering a path toward making it a reality. Ultimately, Our Fair Share calls on each of us to claim what is uniquely American, building a common future that embraces and celebrates our differences. This is our revolutionary inheritance. May we all benefit from it.
Author: State of Alaska
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 2020-05-01
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 1602234108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Alaska Constitution, ratified by the people in 1956, became operative with the proclamation of statehood on January 3, 1959. The constitution was drafted by fifty-five delegates who convened at the University of Alaska to determine the authority vested in the state legislature, executive, judiciary, and other functions of government. This conveniently sized new edition will make the Alaska State Constitution accessible to all.
