Citizens' wealth why (and how) sovereign funds should be managed by the people for the people
"2006, Chile teemed with protesters after finance minister Andres Velasco invested budget surpluses from the nation's historic copper boom in two Sovereign Wealth Funds. A year later, when prices plummeted and unemployment soared, Chile's government was able to stimulate recovery by d...
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New Haven
Yale University Press
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: The Santiago dilemma
- 2. Do sovereign funds make nations richer?
- 3. Whose wealth is it: state's or citizens'?
- 4. The Tsipras point: control of and benefit from community wealth
- 5. No accumulation without representation!
- 6. Dirty money: generating sovereign wealth ethically
- 7. Role models of community control: Norway and New Zealand
- 8. Show me the money! Citizen benefit from sovereign wealth
- 9. Owner-state or owner-people: lessons from Alaska
- 10. Fighting inequality with sovereign wealth
- 11. Past the peak? The future of sovereign wealth accumulation
- 12. Transforming sovereign funds into community funds
- APPENDIX 1. The world's sovereign wealth funds (as at April 2016)
- APPENDIX 2. Select sovereign wealth fund definitions
- APPENDIX 3. Truman scoreboard of sovereign wealth funds (2009-12)