Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend: Examining its Suitability as a Model Exporting the Alaska Model: Adapting the Permanent Fund Dividend for Reform around the World

摘要

Both of these books examine the Alaska model - the combination of a publicly held asset fund financed by income from publicly held assets and known as the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF), and the dividend paid from that fund to all citizens of the state, called the Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD). Part I of the first book discusses the history and impact of the model, while Part II considers its ethical justification. The second book investigates the applicability of the Alaska model to a variety of economies, including those without vast resource wealth, asks why most of the sovereign wealth funds (SWF) around the world do not pay dividends, and ends with a proposal for an expansion of the Alaska model. Most of the articles in these two books were presented at the 2011 Basic Income Guarantee Congress, held in conjunction with the Eastern Economic Association, or at the Conference entitled "Exporting the Alaska Model," held at the University of Alaska in Anchorage that same year.