Common wealth dividends are universal cash payments funded by fees on the private use of common resources like land, minerals, and the atmosphere as a carbon sink. Thomas Paine's 1797 pamphlet Agrarian Justice and Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend are staples in the literature on basic income, but there is much more to common wealth dividends beyond these highlights, and common wealth dividends have a distinctive ethical justification and distinctive policy implications that merit discussion. This monograph, a comprehensive study of common wealth dividends, is ideal for readers interested in basic income and researchers focused on environmental studies, including sustainable development, natural resource management, and climate policy.

Provides a comprehensive book-length treatment of common wealth dividends Draws attention to the resource curse as a problem and dividends as a solution Offers a general theory of common wealth dividends, encompassing both those based on natural commons and those based on man-made commons

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Brent Ranalli is a policy practitioner who consults for public-sector clients at The Cadmus Group, LLC. His writings on common wealth dividends, Basic Income, and other policy topics have been published in Basic Income Studies and Basic Income News and in the USBIG discussion paper series, as well as in the Journal for Refugee Studies, the Journal for Sustainability Education, Foreign Affairs, and Controversies in Globalization, 2nd edition. Mr. Ranalli co-edits Environment: An Interdisciplinary Anthology for Yale University Press and serves as editor of the Thoreau Society Bulletin.

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Chapter 1: Introduction: What Are Common Wealth Dividends (CWDs)?.- Chapter 2:. Thomas Paine and the Perennial Problem of Land Reform.- Chapter 3: CWDs as Applied to Natural Resources.- Chapter 4: CWD as Applied to Ecosystem Services.- Chapter 5: Common Wealth Dividends in Theory and Practice