Alaskas Permanent Fund Dividend: Examining Its Suitability as a Model
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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.
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Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
Publication Date: 29 Feb 2012
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780230112070
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Karl Widerquist is Associate Professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He holds two doctoratesone in Political Theory from Oxford University (2006) and one in Economics from the City University of New York (1996). He is coauthor of Economics for Social Workers coeditor of The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee coeditor of Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend: Assessing its Suitability as a Model (Palgrave Macmillan) and coeditor of Exporting the Alaska Model: Adapting the Permanent Fund Dividend for Reform around the World (Palgrave Macmillan). He is a founding editor of the journal Basic Income Studies and has published scholarly articles on economics politics and philosophy in journals such as Political Studies Utilitas Eastern Economic Journal Politics and Society and Politics Philosophy and Economics.