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Joseph Bast is president of the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based industry-funded think tank. Bast opened the International Conference on Climate Change (2009), organized by Heartland. [1] He "studied economics as an undergraduate" at the University of Chicago[2] but did not complete the degree.[3]
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Background
Bast is the "coauthor of 12 books, including Rebuilding America's Schools (1990), Why We Spend Too Much on Health Care (1992), Eco-Sanity: A Common-Sense Guide to Environmentalism (1994), and Education & Capitalism (2003)," according to his Heartland profile.[2]
Heartland paid Bast $96,292 in 2007, according to the organization's financial report for that year. His wife, Diane Carol Bast, is the think tank's Vice President of Internal Affairs. She was paid $76,337 in 2007.[4] Joseph Bast was paid $80,797 in 2005, according to Heartland's financial report that year.[5]
Bast currently sits on the board of directors for the American Conservative Union, after being elected in 2007.[6]
Affiliations
A biographical note lists Bast's current and former affiliations as being:[6]
- Board of Directors of Nomos Press Inc., 1983 - 1988;
- Board of Directors of The Heartland Institute, 1990 - current.
- Founding Director, officer, and member of the executive committee, State Policy Network, 1991-1997;
- Board of Advisors, Advocates for Self-Government, 2003 - current;
- Board of Advisors, Illinois Policy Institute, 2004 - current;
- Board of Advisors, Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, 2005 - current;
- Board of Directors, American Conservative Union, 2007 - current.
Articles and resources
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References
- ↑ "Speakers," Heartland Institute website, accessed March 2009.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Joseph L. Bast bio," Heartland Institute website, accessed March 2009.
- ↑ Joseph Bast, email to SourceWatch editor Bob Burton, September 2009.
- ↑ "Heartland Institute IRS 990 from 2007 (pdf)," via GuideStar.org, accessed March 2009.
- ↑ "Heartland Institute IRS 990 from 2005 (pdf)," via GuideStar.org.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 ""Joseph L. Bast - 2008 Resumé"," Heartland Institute website, accessed March 2009.
External resources
External articles
Articles by Bast
- Joseph Bast, "Opening Remarks: 2008 International Conference on Climate Change", March 8, 2009. (A copy of his Powerpoint presentation is available here.)
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