Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend: Examining Its Suitability as a Model

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction: Success in Alaska....Pages 3-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
The Improbable but True Story of How the Alaska Permanent Fund and the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend Came to Be....Pages 15-39
How the APF and the PFD Operate: The Peculiar Mechanics of Alaska’s State Finances....Pages 41-48
The Economic and Social Impacts of the Permanent Fund Dividend on Alaska....Pages 49-63
Politics, the Preservation of Natural Resource Wealth, and the Funding of a Basic Income Guarantee....Pages 65-83
Risk and the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend....Pages 85-98
Permanent Perhaps: Challenges to the Model in Alaska in Its First 30 Years....Pages 99-114
Critical Reflections on the Future of Alaska’s Permanent Fund and Dividend....Pages 115-119
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Left-Libertarianism and the Resource Dividend....Pages 123-139
Basic Income and the Alaska Model: Limits of the Resource Dividend Model for the Implementation of an Unconditional Basic Income....Pages 141-155
Stakeholding through the Permanent Fund Dividend: Fitting Practice to Theory....Pages 157-168
The Alaska Model: A Republican Perspective....Pages 169-188
Climate Change, Complicity, and Compensation....Pages 189-204
Why Link Basic Income to Resource Taxation?....Pages 205-218
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
Conclusion: Lessons from the Alaska Model....Pages 221-227
Back Matter....Pages 229-267