Karl Widerquist

Overview

Karl Widerquist is a political theorist and one of the basic-income movement's most prolific scholars. For this wiki he matters chiefly as co-editor (with Michael W. Howard) of Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend: Examining Its Suitability as a Model (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) — the standard scholarly examination of the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend as a template for a citizen's dividend, and a key source for the political-durability lesson carried on resource-rent dividends work.[1] He has also written for popular Georgist outlets on exporting the Alaska model.[2]

See Also

• Widerquist & Howard (2012) — the edited volume
• Citizen's Dividend · Alaska Permanent Fund · Alaska
• Narrative: A Dividend from Common Wealth

Sources

1. Karl Widerquist & Michael W. Howard (eds.), Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend: Examining Its Suitability as a Model, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. DOI — used for his editorial role and the volume's subject (A-claims).
2. Karl Widerquist, "Exporting the Alaska Model," progress.org. Article — used for his advocacy writing (A-claim). Confirmed on direct read (2026-07-07): bylined "Karl Widerquist, Ph.D., Editor," the piece is an early (2012) preview of the co-edited volume Exporting the Alaska Model: How the Permanent Fund Dividend Can Be Adapted as a Reform Model for the World (with Michael Howard, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), arguing the Alaska dividend model can be adapted elsewhere.