Dominick Salvatore is the Distinguished Professor of Economics and the Director of the Ph.D. Program in Economics at Fordham University in New York City. He is the Honorary Professor at the Shanghai Finance University and Hunan University and was a Visiting Professor at various universities including University of Rome (2003-2010), American University in Cairo (2007), University of Pretoria (2009), Peking University (2009-2011), University of Trieste (1996-2002), and University of Vienna (1995-2003).

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July 21, 2011, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Progress Foundation 28th Economic Conference

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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