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Robert Nelson on Environmentalism as Religion
Recorded: Monday, May 21, 2012

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Senior Fellow Robert Nelson, author of The New Holy Wars talks about the the religious implications between church, state, and environmentalism with Anthony Gill on Research on Religion.

Experts: Robert H. Nelson
Type: Radio
Issues: Culture/ Society, Environment, Religion

       
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Emily Skarbek Interviewed on Budget & Tax News Podcast
Recorded: Thursday, December 2, 2010

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MyGovCost.org Director and Independent Research Fellow Emily Skarbek was a guest on the Heartland Institute’s Budget & Tax News podcast. Click to listen to her commentary on the roots of our current spending crisis, what’s at stake in the Congressional budget war, and how to use the Institute’s very timely and user-friendly Government Cost Calculator.

Experts: Emily C. Skarbek
Type: Radio

       
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MyGovCost.org Director Emily Skarbek on Mad in the Middle
Recorded: Monday, November 15, 2010

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MyGovCost.org Director Emily Skarbek Talks tax cuts and the Government Cost Calculator on Mad in the Middle.

Experts: Emily C. Skarbek
Type: Radio

       
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Economic Religion vs. Environmental Religion in America
Recorded: Thursday, October 7, 2010

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Experts: Steven F. Hayward, Robert H. Nelson, Max L. Stackhouse, Alexander Tabarrok
Type: Independent Institute Event
Issues: Environment, Regulation and Deregulation, Religion

       
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Economic Religion vs. Environmental Religion in America
Recorded: Thursday, October 7, 2010

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“Economics and environmentalism are types of modern religions.” So says Robert H. Nelson in his analysis of the roots of economics and environmentalism and their mutually antagonistic relations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The present debate raging over global warming exemplifies the clash of these two public theologies.

Experts: Steven F. Hayward, Robert H. Nelson, Max L. Stackhouse
Type: Independent Institute Event
Issues: Property Rights, Religion

       
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