Policy Studies
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No. 111 – What Climate Scientists Really Say about Global Warming
Publication -Policy Studies -The Heartland Institute has released a study challenging assertions that climate scientists have come to a consensus about global warming. -
The Ultimate Tax Reform: Public Revenue from Land Rent (full text pdf)
Publication -Policy Studies -This analysis explains why land value taxation is, as Milton Friedman once put it, the “least bad” tax. An ideal tax system respects a person’s right to privacy, does not discourage work or savings, and does not induce dishonesty. -
No. 110 Iowa Municipal Communications Systems: The Financial Track Record
Publication -Policy Studies -This report documents the financial performance of three municipal communications systems operating in Iowa: Cedar Falls, Muscatine, and Spencer. -
No. 101 – State Greenhouse Gas Programs: An Economic Analysis (ppt)
Publication -Policy Studies -Download PowerPoint presentation Presentation to the Pennsylvania House Committee on Environmental Resources and Energy. -
No. 108 Municipal Broadband: Optimistic Plan, Disappointing Reality
Publication -Policy Studies -This paper compares the financial performance of a municipal fiber-to-the-home system in Bristol, Virginia with projections made by the same consultant for a proposed fiber-to-the-home system in Lafayette, Louisiana. -
No. 107 – Illinois’ Public Pension Crisis: Policy Study (pdf)
Publication -Policy Studies -This analysis finds Illinois is facing a serious public pension fund crisis due to systematic underpayment of the state’s obligations for more than 25 years. -
No. 106 – A Guide to Classical Liberal Think Tanks
Publication -Policy Studies -Philanthropists who want to make the world a better place to live have many choices of worthy groups and causes. -
No. 105 Municipally Owned Broadband Networks: A Critical Evaluation (Revised Edition)
Publication -Policy Studies -This analysis, revised and updated to reflect national and local changes during the past two years, finds the case for municipal ownership of broadband networks is even weaker than it was then. -
No. 103 – Packer Ownership of Hogs: Economic and Political Ramifications
Publication -Policy Studies -Should meat packers be allowed to own livestock, and hogs in particular? The issue deeply divides farm communities and both political parties in many Midwest states. -
Amicus Brief: Parker v. District of Columbia
Publication -Policy Studies -The Heartland Institute filed an amicus brief with the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia urging that court to enter judgment in favor of the plaintiffs in the Heller gun case. -
No. 102 – Greenhouse Gas Control: Implications for Agriculture
Publication -Policy Studies -Legislation is being considered at the federal and state levels to slow the onset or ameliorate the effects of global warming. -
State Fiscal Constraints and Higher Education Spending: The Role of Medicaid and the Business Cycle
Publication -Policy Studies -The more states spend on Medicaid, the less they spend on higher education. -
The Right Tool for the Job? An analysis of Tax Increment Financing (Summary)
Publication -Policy Studies -Tax Increment Financing (TIF) is an economic development tool that uses the expected growth (or increment) in property tax revenues from a designated geographic area of a municipality to finance bonds used to pay for goods and services calculated to spur -
The Right Tool for the Job? An analysis of Tax Increment Financing: Volume 2 – Case Studies
Publication -Policy Studies -Evaluations of TIF typically focus only on the number of new jobs thought to be created in the TIF district and how much property values rose. Such evaluations overlook what happens to community residents and to areas surrounding the TIF district. -
No. 101 – State Greenhouse Gas Programs: An Economic and Scientific Analysis: 37 State-Specific Tables
Publication -Policy Studies -State greenhouse gas programs aimed at reducing emissions to 7 percent less than 1990 levels could cost the average state government $3.2 billion in direct expenses and lost revenues, or 28.6 percent of an average state government’s entire 2001 revenues. -
No. 101 – State Greenhouse Gas Programs: An Economic and Scientific Analysis (summary html)
Publication -Policy Studies -This is a summary of Joseph L. Bast, James M. Taylor, J.D., and Jay Lehr, Ph.D., “State Greenhouse Gas Programs: An Economic and Scientific Analysis,” Heartland Policy Study #101 (Chicago, IL: The Heartland Institute, February 2003). -
No. 101 – State Greenhouse Gas Programs: An Economic and Scientific Analysis (summary pdf)
Publication -Policy Studies -State greenhouse gas programs aimed at reducing emissions to 7 percent less than 1990 levels could cost the average state government $3.2 billion in direct expenses and lost revenues, or 28.6 percent of an average state government’s entire 2001 revenues. -
No. 101 – State Greenhouse Gas Programs: An Economic and Scientific Analysis
Publication -Policy Studies -State greenhouse gas programs aimed at reducing emissions to 7 percent less than 1990 levels could cost the average state government $3.2 billion in direct expenses and lost revenues, or 28. -
No. 101 – State Greenhouse Gas Programs: An Economic and Scientific Analysis (ppt)
Publication -Policy Studies -Download PowerPoint presentation The real goal of environmental activists calling for greenhouse gas programs is to reduce emission to at least 7 percent below 1990 levels, the Kyoto Protocol goal. -
No. 101 – State Greenhouse Gas Programs: An Economic and Scientific Analysis – Summary (ppt)
Publication -Policy Studies -Download PowerPoint presentation Economic activity migrates from countries and states that impose emission controls to those that do not, since the latter now have lower energy costs and/or fewer regulatory burdens. -
No. 101 – State Greenhouse Gas Programs: An Economic and Scientific Analysis (ppt)
Publication -Policy Studies -Download PowerPoint presentation The real goal of environmental activists calling for greenhouse gas programs is to reduce emission to at least 7 percent below 1990 levels, the Kyoto Protocol goal. -
No. 101 – State Greenhouse Gas Programs: An Economic and Scientific Analysis – Summary (ppt)
Publication -Policy Studies -Download PowerPoint presentation Economic activity migrates from countries and states that impose emission controls to those that do not, since the latter now have lower energy costs and/or fewer regulatory burdens. -
No. 100 Municipally Owned Broadband Networks: A Critical Evaluation
Publication -Policy Studies -For the past two years, city officials from the Tri-Cities have been discussing ways to improve telecommunications services – telephone and cable as well as Internet access. -
No. 100 Municipally Owned Broadband Networks: A Critical Evaluation
Publication -Policy Studies -For the past two years, city officials from the Tri-Cities have been discussing ways to improve telecommunications services – telephone and cable as well as Internet access.
