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The People’S Endowment, Karl Widerquist
The People’S Endowment, Karl Widerquist
Karl Widerquist
Myths About The State Of Nature And The Reality Of Stateless Societies, Karl Widerquist, Grant Mccall
Myths About The State Of Nature And The Reality Of Stateless Societies, Karl Widerquist, Grant Mccall
Karl Widerquist
The Big Casino, Karl Widerquist
The Big Casino, Karl Widerquist
Karl Widerquist
This paper uses an analogy to illustrate two things: (1) the economy is and will always be a casino, and (2) in existing societies and most libertarian, liberal, and socialist visions of society individuals are effectively forced to participate in the casino economy. It argues justice requires that individuals must be free from forced participation in such an economy and that the best way to free people from forced participation is the provision of a Basic Income Guarantee.
Is Basic Income Still Worth Talking About?, Karl Widerquist
Is Basic Income Still Worth Talking About?, Karl Widerquist
Karl Widerquist
Universal Basic Income (UBI) is the hugely ambitious policy of granting a small income to every person, unconditionally as a right of citizenship. Usually, a “full” UBI is considered to be enough to meet basic needs, while anything less is a “partial” UBI (USBIG Network 2011). In the post-financial crisis days of austerity, cutbacks, and retrenchment it might seem that such a policy is too ambitious to be worth discussing in the current political climate, especially in the United States. But this chapter will argue that UBI is (and should be) an important part of the political dialogue today. Part …
The Basic Income Guarantee In The United States: Past Experience, Current Proposals, Karl Widerquist, Allan Sheahen
The Basic Income Guarantee In The United States: Past Experience, Current Proposals, Karl Widerquist, Allan Sheahen
Karl Widerquist
No abstract provided.
Chapter X: Bibliography, Karl Widerquist
The Alaska Model As A Menu Of Options, Karl Widerquist, Michael W. Howard
The Alaska Model As A Menu Of Options, Karl Widerquist, Michael W. Howard
Karl Widerquist
No abstract provided.
Chapter 3: Forty Acres And A Mule? Implications Of The Duty To Respect Person Independence, Karl Widerquist
Chapter 3: Forty Acres And A Mule? Implications Of The Duty To Respect Person Independence, Karl Widerquist
Karl Widerquist
No abstract provided.
A Permanent Endowment For The United States, Karl Widerquist
A Permanent Endowment For The United States, Karl Widerquist
Karl Widerquist
This is a chapter from the book, "Exporting the Alaska Model." The chapter argues that the United States can create a permanent resource-based endowment that could finance both a substantial dividend (in the form of an unconditional basic income) and a significant portion of government spending, perhaps nearly all government spending. It argues why endowment financing is a more progressive alternative to the more traditional approach of taxation and regulation.
Chapter 7: What Good Is A Theory Of Freedom That Allows Forced Labor? Independence And Modern Theories Of Freedom, Karl Widerquist
Chapter 7: What Good Is A Theory Of Freedom That Allows Forced Labor? Independence And Modern Theories Of Freedom, Karl Widerquist
Karl Widerquist
No abstract provided.
Chapter 4: The Importance Of Independence I: Framing The Issue, Karl Widerquist
Chapter 4: The Importance Of Independence I: Framing The Issue, Karl Widerquist
Karl Widerquist
No abstract provided.
Citizens’ Capital Accounts: A Proposal, Karl Widerquist
Citizens’ Capital Accounts: A Proposal, Karl Widerquist
Karl Widerquist
This chapter proposes a personalized version of Alaska’s Permanent Fund (APF) and Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) system, called “Citizens’ Capital Accounts” (CCAs), which will combine some of the benefits of Basic Income and Stakeholder Grants. CCAs make for a more flexible and meaningful use of revenue than an equal-sized Basic Income, resource dividend, or Stakeholder grant.
Chapter 9: On Duty, Karl Widerquist
Chapter 8: If You're An Egalitarian, Why Do You Want To Be The Boss Of The Poor? Independence And Liberal-Egalitarian Theories Of Justice, Karl Widerquist
Chapter 8: If You're An Egalitarian, Why Do You Want To Be The Boss Of The Poor? Independence And Liberal-Egalitarian Theories Of Justice, Karl Widerquist
Karl Widerquist
No abstract provided.
Chapter 5: The Importance Of Independence Ii: Freedom An Integrity, Karl Widerquist
Chapter 5: The Importance Of Independence Ii: Freedom An Integrity, Karl Widerquist
Karl Widerquist
No abstract provided.
Chapter 6: The Importance Of Independence Iii: Market Vulnerability, Karl Widerquist
Chapter 6: The Importance Of Independence Iii: Market Vulnerability, Karl Widerquist
Karl Widerquist
No abstract provided.
Chapter 0: Prologue, Karl Widerquist
Chapter 2: Status Freedom As Effective Control Self-Ownership, Karl Widerquist
Chapter 2: Status Freedom As Effective Control Self-Ownership, Karl Widerquist
Karl Widerquist
No abstract provided.
Chapter X10: Conclusion, Karl Widerquist
A Day-Long Discussion Of “The Alaska Model” At The University Of Alaska-Anchorage, Karl Widerquist
A Day-Long Discussion Of “The Alaska Model” At The University Of Alaska-Anchorage, Karl Widerquist
Karl Widerquist
On April 22, 2011, I had the privilege of attending a conference at the University of Alaska-Anchorage discussing the book, Exporting the Alaska Model: How the Permanent Fund Dividend Can Be Adapted as Model for Reform Around the World. The book is edited by Michael W. Howard and me. It is due out early next year on Palgrave-MacMillan. This is my personal account of a conference held on Friday, April 22, 2011 at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska
Why We Demand An Unconditional Basic Income: The Ecso Freedom Case, Karl Widerquist
Why We Demand An Unconditional Basic Income: The Ecso Freedom Case, Karl Widerquist
Karl Widerquist
Philippe Van Parijs’s (1995) Real Freedom for All: What (If Anything) Can Justify Capitalism makes a very thorough and challenging philosophical argument for basic income. But I believe that it has two important limitations that inhibit it from giving a compelling explanation why basic income supporters believe that support for the disadvantage must be not only universal but also unconditional and enough to meet an individual’s basic needs. This essay briefly discusses those limitations and then proposes an alternative argument for basic income that I believe relies on a more compelling concept of freedom, defined below as “Freedom as Effective …
Two Memoirs Tell The History Of The Alaska Dividend, Karl Widerquist
Two Memoirs Tell The History Of The Alaska Dividend, Karl Widerquist
Karl Widerquist
Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend is closer to a basic income than almost any other policy in the world today. The lessons of how it was created and how it became so popular and successful are extremely important to the basic income movement. Two autobiographies available now tell different parts of the story of the Alaska Dividend. One is by Jay Hammond, the governor who, more than anyone else, is responsible for creating the fund and dividend. The other is by Dave Rose, the first executive director of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation. This review essay draws lessons for the basic …
How The Sufficiency Minimum Becomes A Social Maximum, Karl Widerquist
How The Sufficiency Minimum Becomes A Social Maximum, Karl Widerquist
Karl Widerquist
This article argues that, under likely empirical conditions, sufficientarianism leads not to an easily achievable duty to maintain a social minimum but to the onerous duty of maintaining a social maximum at the sufficiency level. This happens because sufficientarians ask us to give no weight at all to small benefits for people above the sufficiency level if the alternative is to relieve the suffering of people below it. If we apply this judgment in a world where there are rare diseases and hard-to-prevent accidents that cause people to fall below the sufficiency threshold, all of our discretionary spending will have …
Lockean Theories Of Property: Justifications For Unilateral Appropriation, Karl Widerquist
Lockean Theories Of Property: Justifications For Unilateral Appropriation, Karl Widerquist
Karl Widerquist
Although John Locke’s theory of appropriation is undoubtedly influential, no one seems to agree about exactly what he was trying to say. It is unlikely that someone will write the interpretation that effectively ends the controversy. Instead of trying to find the one definitive interpretation of Locke’s property theory, this article attempts to identify the range of reasonable interpretations and extensions of Lockean property theory that exist in the contemporary literature with an emphasis on his argument for unilateral appropriation. It goes through Locke’s argument point-by-point discussing the controversy over what he said and over what he perhaps should have …
What Does Prehistoric Anthropology Have To Do With Modern Political Philosophy? Evidence Of Five False Claims, Karl Widerquist
What Does Prehistoric Anthropology Have To Do With Modern Political Philosophy? Evidence Of Five False Claims, Karl Widerquist
Karl Widerquist
Lessons Of The Alaska Dividend, Karl Widerquist
Lessons Of The Alaska Dividend, Karl Widerquist
Karl Widerquist
At a time when progressive social policies are under attack across the industrialized world, the Alaska Dividend continues to be extremely popular. It distributes a yearly dividend to every man, woman, and child in Alaska without any conditions whatsoever. It has helped Alaska maintain one of the lowest poverty rates in the United States. It has helped Alaska become the most economically equal of all 50 states. And it has helped Alaska become the only U.S. state in which equality has risen rather than fallen over the last 20 years. Certainly Alaska is doing something right. As newsletter editor for …
I Have A Basic Income, Karl Widerquist
I Have A Basic Income, Karl Widerquist
Karl Widerquist
In a period of about eight months, I managed to save and invest enough money to get myself a small personal basic income. It was easy—if you get the kind of lucky breaks I got. I’m telling you this story only because it illustrates how much our economic fortunes are determined by luck, how favorably our laws treat people who own stuff (people who have obtained control of natural resources) and how much unearned income is available for redistribution.
A Dilemma For Libertarianism, Karl Widerquist
A Dilemma For Libertarianism, Karl Widerquist
Karl Widerquist
Keeping The Global Recession In Perspective, Karl Widerquist
Keeping The Global Recession In Perspective, Karl Widerquist
Karl Widerquist
The global recession has been spreading and deepening for nearly a year. It could become the worst downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it has captured nearly all of the attention we, our media, and our leaders pay to economic issues. Perhaps we’re paying too much attention to it. I want to convince you in this editorial that a recession—even a major depression—is not an economic problem of the first magnitude. Our most pressing economic problems are distribution, and they exist whether we are in recession or not. Recessions appear to be a major problem primarily because …
The Economic Lesson Of 1938, Karl Widerquist
The Economic Lesson Of 1938, Karl Widerquist
Karl Widerquist
Economic events of 1938 are relevant to our handling of the global recession today.