Below are some of my publications, reports and presentations about the Alaska economy.
Presentations prepared for an OLÉ! (Opportunities for Lifelong Education) short course on The Economy of Alaska, October and November 2019
Introduction and Major Themes for a Course on Alaska’s Economy. This is the first of five presentations for a short course on The Economy of Alaska which I taught in October and November of 2019 for the Anchorage organization OLÉ! (Opportunities for Lifelong Education). This presentation provides a brief outline of plans for the course, and then introduces major themes of the course.
An Overview of the Economy of Alaska. This is the second of five presentations for a short course on The Economy of Alaska which I taught in October and November of 2019 for the Anchorage organization OLÉ! (Opportunities for Lifelong Education). This presentation provides an overview of trends in Alaska population, employment, Gross State Product, and income.
Theory for Explaining Alaska’s Economy. This is the third of five presentations for a short course on The Economy of Alaska which I taught in October and November of 2019 for the Anchorage organization OLÉ! (Opportunities for Lifelong Education). It discusses economic base models and other ways of thinking about what drives Alaska’s economy over time.
Alaska’s Fiscal Challenge and Choices. This is the fourth of five presentations for a short course on The Economy of Alaska which I taught in October and November of 2019 for the Anchorage organization OLÉ! (Opportunities for Lifelong Education). It summarizes how Alaska’s finances have changed and the choices which they will force us to make between government spending, dividend spending, broad-based taxes and resource taxes.
Alaska’s Economic Future and Choices. This is the fifth of five presentations for a short course on The Economy of Alaska which I taught in October and November of 2019 for the Anchorage organization OLÉ! (Opportunities for Lifelong Education). This presentation provides an overview of the factors which will drive Alaska’s economy in the future and which ones we can and can’t control. It also summarizes positive, negative and uncertain factors which will affect Alaska’s future.
Selected other presentations and papers
Four Alaska Innovations (2007)
This is a short talk which I gave for the Board of Governors of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank during a meeting that they held in Alaska in July 2007. In it I briefly discussed four “Alaska innovations”: The Alaska Permanent Fund, The Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend Program, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and the Community Development Quota Program.
Selected materials prepared for my UAA course on the Economy of Alaska
For many years I taught an online course at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Below are selected materials which I prepared for students in that course. Note that the Alaska economy keeps changing–so some of the materials are no longer up-to-date.
An Introduction to the Economy of Alaska (February 2014)
Notes on Alaska’s Geography (2007)
An Introduction to the Alaska Oil and Gas Industry (2016)
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