Archive for Joseph L. Bast
Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists: A Conservative Manifesto by Peter Huber
Basic Books • 2000 • 288 pages • $25.00 hardcover; $15.00 paperback Peter Huber’s new book will delight as well as infuriate people who seek a consistent free-market approach to environmental issues. He delivers a devastating blow to the views of environmentalists who are antitechnology and antimarket, and does so with great vigor and wit. [...]
1Feb2001 | Joseph L. Bast | 0 comments | ContinuedWhat Hunger Insurance Could Teach Us About Health Insurance
Joseph Bast is President of The Heartland Institute in Chicago. To understand what lies at the heart of the failure of our current health-care financing system, imagine, if you can, what the world would be like if we tried to buy food the same way we buy health-care services. You could go to work tomorrow [...]
1Nov1993 | Joseph L. Bast | 9 comments | Continued-
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