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When people ask me where online to find empirical research on the effects of Basic Income….

February 6, 2019June 6, 2024 Karl WiderquistOpinion, Research, The Indepentarian

When people ask me where to find empirical research on the effects of Basic Income online, I tend to recommend the following sources, both for the sources themselves and for the many more sources you’ll find in their bibliographies: Karl […]

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Moss, Todd (editor) The Governor’s Solution: How Alaska’s Oil Dividend Could Work in Iraq and Other Oil-Rich Countries

June 6, 2013 Karl WiderquistResearch, The Indepentarian

The Governor’s Solution features his firsthand account (PDF) that describes, with brutal honesty and piercing humor, the birth of the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend, which has been paid each year to every citizen-resident of Alaska since 1982. This book, part […]

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Widerquist, Karl “Commentary: Let's change the way Alaska Permanent Fund pays dividends”

February 8, 2013 Karl WiderquistResearch, The Indepentarian

This commentary argues that Alaska should change the formula for calculating its yearly Permanent Fund Dividend (Alaska’s basic income) to create more stable dividend payments.

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Hickel, Jason: “Can South Sudan learn from the Alaska model?”

July 5, 2012 Karl WiderquistResearch, The Indepentarian

In this op-ed, Jason Hickel, argues that Sudan should create a sovereign wealth fund paying regular dividends. South Sudan, is a very poor country with substantial oil resources, most of which are yet to be fully tapped.

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Publications: Palgrave Macmillan releases first two books in its series, “Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee”

March 31, 2012 Karl WiderquistResearch, The Indepentarian

Palgrave Macmillan, part of the Macmillan Group of publishers, is a global academic publisher of textbooks, journals, monographs, professional, and reference works. For several years now, the publisher been putting together a book series on the basic income guarantee. The […]

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