ROSE, Dave as told to WOHLFORTH, Charles (2008), Saving for the Future: My Life and the Alaska Permanent Fund

by Karl Widerquist | Nov 11, 2010 | Research

ROSE, Dave as told to WOHLFORTH, Charles (2008), Saving for the Future: My Life and the Alaska Permanent Fund, Fairbanks: Epicenter Press. 2008

According to one of the authors, the book is really two books. Wohlforth said, “The first half is really for anybody – it’s a slice of life … The second half is getting much more into the permanent fund and public policy and finance.” Wohlforth said the second half of the book is the first time he knows of that a complete history of the Permanent Fund has been written.

Information about the book is online at:
https://www.epicenterpress.com/getpage.cfm?file=book7046.html&userid=85273851

A review on the book by Katie Spielberger for Juneau’s Capital City weekly is online at:
https://www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/092910/new_713459218.shtml

FITZROY, Felix & NOLAN, Michael (2010), 'Relative Income, Redistribution and Well-being'

by Yannick Vanderborght | Nov 11, 2010 | Research

FITZROY, Felix & NOLAN, Michael (2010), ‘Relative Income, Redistribution and Well-being’, Discussion Paper No. 5241, October 2010, Bonn (DE): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), iza@iza.org, paper available at https://ftp.iza.org/dp5241.pdf

In a model with heterogeneous workers and both intensive and extensive margins of employment, the authors consider two systems of redistribution: a universal basic income, and a categorical unemployment benefit. Well-being depends on own-consumption relative to average employed workers’ consumption, and concern for relativity is a parameter that affects model outcomes. While labour supply incurs positive marginal disutility, the authors allow negative welfare effects of unemployment. They also compare Rawlsian and utilitarian welfare in general equilibrium under the polar opposite transfer systems, with varying concern for relativity. Basic income Pareto dominates categorical benefits with moderate concern for relativity in both cases.

BIEN-Schweiz (ed.) (2010), Die Finanzierung eines bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens

by Yannick Vanderborght | Nov 5, 2010 | Research

BIEN-Schweiz (ed.) (2010), Die Finanzierung eines bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens, Zurich: Seismo, ISBN 978-3-03777-102-0.
https://www.seismoverlag.ch/de/

This book edited by the Swiss basic income network includes several papers focusing on concrete proposals for financing a basic income scheme in Switzerland. Other contributors examine the same issue for Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and South Africa. A French version is also available.

PEREIRA, Richard (2009), La sécurité économique au XXIe siècle – Revenu annuel garanti/ allocation universelle. L’impératif écologique, démocratique, de la justice et de la sécurité alimentaire

by Yannick Vanderborght | Nov 5, 2010 | Research

PEREIRA, Richard (2009), La sécurité économique au XXIe siècle – Revenu annuel garanti/ allocation universelle. L’impératif écologique, démocratique, de la justice et de la sécurité alimentaire, Master Thesis, Athabasca University (CA), online at:
https://www.progressive-economics.ca/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/pereira-fr.pdf

In 2010, Richard Pereira was the Graduate Winner for the “Student Essay Contest” organized by the Canadian Progressive Economics Forum, for a paper entitled “Economic security in the twenty-first century – Guaranteed Annual Income: An ecological, democratic, justice and food security imperative”. The paper is now available in French.

Richard Pereira: rpereira_cda@hotmail.com

BARNES, Peter & McKIBBEN, Bill (2009), 'A Simple Market Mechanism to Clean Up Our Economy'

by Yannick Vanderborght | Nov 5, 2010 | Research

BARNES, Peter & McKIBBEN, Bill (2009), ‘A Simple Market Mechanism to Clean Up Our Economy’, Solutions for a Sustainable and Desirable Future, 1 (1), 30-38: Jan 14, 2009, online at: https://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/

The problem of global climate change is far more severe and immediate than we understood a few years ago, the authors argue. As the newest scientific data demonstrate, we have a narrow and fast-closing window in which to reduce carbon loads in the atmosphere. In order to do so, two things need to happen: first, the passage of dramatic legislation in the United States so that the largest source of the greenhouse effect begins to clean up its act; second, the subsequent rapid adoption of a powerful international accord that experts currently consider impossible. This will likely require the elimination of coal and tar sands as energy sources. According to Barnes (Senior fellow at the Tomales Bay Institute in Point Reyes Station, California) and McKibben (Founder of the international climate campaign 350.org and scholar in residence at Middlebury College), this paper offers a game-changing political solution: create a trust to manage the sale of a declining number of carbon permits within the U.S., with dividends from the trust distributed equally to all Americans. The dividends would be wired monthly to bank accounts until the country solves its climate crisis. The advantage of this simple, market-based mechanism is that it creates a level playing field for clean technologies, avoids giveaways to industries with political clout, and assures broad, long-term political support for emission reductions. Using the U.S. as a model, world organizations could create a similar inter­national system that would cap carbon globally and distribute revenue to each nation in proportion to its population and developmental needs.

Online at:
https://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/feature_article/2009-01-14-simple-market-mechanism-can-clean-our-economy