Exporting the Alaska Model
Exporting the Alaska Model

Author: K. Widerquist

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-02-19

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1137031654

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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.

Saving for the Future
Saving for the Future

Author: David A. Rose

Publisher: Epicenter Press (WA)

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780979047046

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From modest beginnings in Queens, New York, Dave Rose became the first director of the Alaska Permanent Fund, playing a crucial role in managing the multibillion-dollar savings account created by voters after discovery of oil at Prudhoe Bay. Rose loved to tell stories. His childhood recollections are reminiscent of a Neil Simon play--warm and witty tales of an irrepressible city boy. With a partner, he starts the first kosher-style deli in Alaska. But that's getting ahead of the story. The Army takes Rose and his bride, Fran, to postwar Anchorage. There, he is elected to office, but a political brawl over his principled stand on civil rights crushes a promising political career. Rose's insider account of the formative days of the permanent fund, as told to award-winning journalist and author Charles Wohlforth, tells of the inner workings of a unique institution that converts earnings from investment of oil wealth into cash payments for Alaskans.