"The Alaska Model: A Republican Perspective"

by Casassas, David; De Wispelaere, Jurgen (2012)

Abstract

Since 1982, each Alaskan has received an equal share of the returns to the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF), a publicly owned investment portfolio funded by the state’s oil revenue. These returns come in the form of a Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) allocating an annual grant of roughly $1,200 to each man, woman, and child who meets the residency requirement. The PFD is the sole example of a large-scale economic policy combining resource taxation—effectively transforming a depleting natural resource into a “sovereign wealth fund”—with the individual and unconditional distribution of (part of) the revenue stream to all resident shareholders. We call this the Alaska model.

Keywords

American Context, Alaska Model, Basic Income, Fund Dividend, Left-Libertarianism, Republicanism, Resource Taxation

Themes

Universal Basic Income

Links to Reference

• https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137015020_12
• http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137015020_12
• https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137015020_12

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