 Friday, November 2 - Saturday, November 3, 2007
Is it happening? Is mankind the principal cause? If so, what can be done about it within reasonable allocations of scarce public resources? Do the proposed solutions make sense from scientific and economic perspectives? NEW! Listen to the entire conference by going to the Day 1 or Day 2 conference presentations. Note: Presentations have been condensed for length considerations. The integrity of the content has been preserved. Buy the Conference Proceedings |
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 Explored the possible factors behind the dollar's weakness and the outlook for both the dollar's value and its role in international markets.
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 Examined the role of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and other financial institutions in the world economy. The starting point was a review of the findings of the Meltzer Commission, a bipartisan group appointed by Congress in 1999 to review the activities of these institutions and to recommend reforms. We invited Meltzer Commission members and a number of journalists to the conference to answer questions concerning how to use the wealth of the United States and whether the US should be concerned with the management of the currenceis and related affairs of other nations.
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 Reviewed the origins of property rights, the renewed intellectual interest in property rights in law and economics since the 1960s, discoveries about the importance of property rights in development finance, the conflict between traditional property rights theories and current land use and control policies in the American West, and the current state of eminent domain law in the United States.
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 This conference was aimed at addressing questions such as, does society gain from adopting a gold monetary standard, and if so, how does it go about resumption from a practical standpoint?
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