Table of Contents
List of figures and tables ix
Acknowledgements x
Abbreviations xiii
1 Introduction: The Santiago dilemma 1
Part I The blessings and burdens of sovereign wealth
2 Do sovereign funds make nations richer? 19
3 Whose wealth is it: state's or citizens'? 36
4 The Tsipras point: control of and benefit from community wealth 58
Part II Democratizing sovereign funds
5 No accumulation without representation! 71
6 Dirty money: generating sovereign wealth ethically 93
7 Role models of community control: Norway and New Zealand 113
Part III Distributing sovereign wealth
8 Show me the money! Citizen benefit from sovereign wealth 135
9 Owner-state or owner-people: lessons from Alaska 160
10 Fighting inequality with sovereign wealth 182
Part IV What next?
11 Past the peak? The future of sovereign wealth accumulation 195
12 Transforming sovereign funds into community funds 207
Appendix 1 The world's sovereign wealth funds (as at April 2016) 218
Appendix 2 Select sovereign wealth fund definitions 224
Appendix 3 Truman scoreboard of sovereign wealth funds (2009-12) 226
Endnotes 229
Bibliography 253
Index 272