Norway flourishes in the Winter Olympics by focusing on application and effort—not on medals—say Slaughter and Rees, comparing that focus to Russia’s challenge to democracy through its invasion of Ukraine.
Feb 28, 2022The challenge facing the Fed is daunting. Slaughter and Rees propose three steps policymakers can take to harness globalization and whip U.S. inflation.
Jan 31, 2022Dean Matthew Slaughter and coauthor Matthew Rees share two public-policy lessons of the pandemic related to globalization and public health—one optimistic, the other less so.
Nov 30, 2021As the U.S. faces the Great Resignation, Slaughter and Rees remind policymakers that the strongest jobs in America have long been those connected to the world through international trade and investment.
Oct 28, 2021Sensible reform for student-athlete compensation will first need to address three important questions informed by an accurate understanding of preexisting market structure, say Slaughter and Rees.
Jun 30, 2021Phil Mickelson’s historic victory reveals lessons about making better decisions—and the value of older workers.
May 27, 2021The surge in global flows of data holds great potential for the global economy, say Dean Matthew Slaughter and coauthor Matthew Rees. Yet big data remains largely ungoverned.
Apr 22, 2021In their latest missive, Dean Matthew Slaughter and coauthor Matthew Rees underscore how unnecessarily costly America’s too-restrictive skilled-immigration policy is.
Mar 31, 2021Did President Trump eliminate America's trio of trade deficits? Dean Matthew Slaughter and coauthor Matthew Rees weigh in and look ahead to trade policy under the Biden administration.
Feb 26, 2021This Inauguration Day, Dean Matthew Slaughter and coauthor Matthew Rees provide a scorecard for the heart of the American economy—workers and their families—to help clarify how to measure progress in the days ahead.
Jan 20, 2021While the U.S. awaits COVID-19 stimulus packages and the distribution of vaccines, Dean Matthew J. Slaughter and coauthor Matthew Rees examine two scientific landmarks from earlier this month—an optimistic one for China and a disheartening one for the United States.
Dec 15, 2020Ed Winchester, the beloved executive director of marketing and communications at Tuck who died unexpectedly last week, was emblematic of a wise and decisive leader.
Apr 30, 2020In a new essay for "Foreign Affairs," Dean Matthew J. Slaughter and coauthor Matthew Rees outline a three-step policy plan to halt the coming coronavirus recession.
Mar 26, 2020How can we make America’s health-care system more productive? It’s a key question absent from the health-care reform debate, say Slaughter and Rees.
Feb 27, 2020Tuck School Dean Matthew J. Slaughter and co-author Matthew Rees provide three main lessons from the U.S.-China trade war’s first phase and a potential solution for lasting peace between the world’s two largest economies.
Jan 30, 2020Are adults—in America and around the world—failing their children? Matthew J. Slaughter and Matthew Rees share an important wish for the New Year.
Dec 16, 2019America’s struggling communities are in desperate need of high-talent immigrants. We should welcome them, say Slaughter and Rees.
May 01, 2019America should consider how to harness the earnestness of the Green New Deal—a resolution regarding climate change submitted by newly elected Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—without wreaking economic havoc.
Mar 11, 2019The future of work in the face of globalization remains unknown. But the best way to equip workers for whatever globalization might render is by investing in their human capital, say Slaughter and Rees.
Feb 11, 2019For the third consecutive year, life expectancy in the U.S. has fallen.
Jan 07, 2019The First Step Act, which sits before the U.S. Senate, would create more opportunities for rehabilitation in federal prisons.
Dec 03, 2018When it comes to globalization, building a lifelong ladder of opportunity for all citizens is imperative, say Slaughter and Rees.
Nov 01, 2018"Fiscal 2018 was in many ways a disaster for the fiscal health of America—today and in the future," say Slaughter and Rees.
Oct 02, 2018The United States and China are on the brink of a major trade war. Here are three principles that should guide U.S. policy leaders’ statecraft at this precarious time.
Sep 04, 2018It is no longer clear that users of Facebook benefit as they once thought they did—could there be a better way? Dean Matthew Slaughter and economist Matthew Rees weigh in.
Apr 09, 2018The President recently tweeted that trade wars are good and winnable. Slaughter & Rees argue that no country wins in a trade war.
Mar 05, 2018It is easier for government and policy leaders to implement pro-productivity policies in boom times.
Feb 01, 2018Economists Slaughter and Rees opine that for the next chairperson of the Federal Reserve Board, the president must nominate the candidate who exhibits the greatest capacity to learn.
Oct 30, 2017The state of the median household in 2016, both in terms of income and net worth, was a glass half full and half empty: full relative to the recent past, empty relative to the past generation.
Oct 02, 2017"In the strongest organizations, employees trust each other: their motivations, their strengths and weaknesses, and their intentions," say two former White House employees.
Jul 31, 2017While the U.S. is still perceived as the number one economic power in the world, the Pew Research Center finds that other nations, namely China, are gaining ground.
Jul 25, 2017With many of the planet’s fish populations at or approaching “biologically unsustainable levels” an intergovernmental mechanism that induces fishermen to internalize the harm they do by overfishing is needed now more than ever.
Jul 17, 2017On July 1, India’s famously labyrinthine tax code was scrapped for a much simpler one that may unleash enormous potential.
Jul 03, 2017"Leaders in Washington should base their policy ideas on data and research, not anecdotes and assertions," say Slaughter & Rees.
Jun 19, 2017Economic dynamism has historically brought an upward spiral of growth in productivity, opportunity, and thus incomes, but in the U.S., dynamism is fading.
May 30, 2017Entrepreneurs represent a vibrant and powerful force with great potential to reshape the Chinese economy.
May 22, 2017