The Heartland Institute

The Center on Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate is one of five centers at The Heartland Institute, each dedicated to discovering, developing, and promoting free-market solutions to social and economic problems in a particular area. History The Heartland Institute’s participation in the finance, insurance, and real estate (FIRE ...

An article in the May 26, 2012 issue of The Economist titled “Toxic shock” begins with these promising words: “The Heartland Institute, the world’s most prominent think-tank promoting scepticism about man-made climate change, is getting a lot of heat.” We appreciate the acknowledgment of our international stature in the climate ...

The Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank whose researchers have questioned government subsidies to sports stadiums since the mid 1980s, has released a new Policy Brief proposing fan ownership of teams as a solution to “sports stadium madness.” Author Joseph Bast , president of the institute, notes “sports stadium subsidies ...

Click the links below to download a PDF of the series of cease and desist letters The Heartland Institute sent to blogs and online publications that linked to and reproduced excerpts from the stolen and faked documents in the Fakegate scandal surrounding Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute. ...

References to Climate Change Reconsidered – 2009 Compiled by Joseph Bast December 18, 2011 These citations were generated using Google Scholar on December 18, 2011. Most references are to peer-reviewed journals or books. Affiliations of authors are sometimes provided as background. Foreign language citations are not included. ...

This issue of FIRE Policy News once again chronicles the descent of America from a land of freedom and opportunity into a second-rate country dominated by government regulators, politicians, and rent-seekers. From housing markets to banking, from insurance regulations to management of the country's money supply, the trend always ...

The August 5 issue of Science, the venerable journal published by the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, contains an article by Sara Reardon that discusses the controversy over how climate change is presented in K-12 science classrooms. First, the good news: Ms. Reardon reports that an informal survey of members ...

Nature , the well-known British science journal, has a feature story and an unsigned editorial in its latest issue addressing The Heartland Institute’s contribution to the global debate over climate change. The articles can be read (for free) at the following links: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110727/full/475440a.html and http ...

On July 7, Media Matters for America posted a lengthy piece by Jocelyn Fong about The Heartland Institute s Sixth International Conference on Climate Change , which took place in Washington DC the week before. Although Media Matters is known for its liberal partisanship and ad hominem attacks, this article is actually a serious ...

Contrary to what you read repeatedly in daily newspapers or hear on television, most scientists do not believe there is a scientific consensus that man-made climate change (often labeled anthropogenic global warming, or AGW) is or will be a catastrophe. Unfortunately, the old/mainstream/dead media will be the last folks to acknowledge ...