While 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, 2017New technologies invariably produce winners and losers, but the music industry in particular has been pummeled.
May 01, 2017Sunday April 23, 2017 may be the date that future historians identify as the starting point for a receding tide of global populism in the 21st century.
Apr 24, 2017Government and business are fundamentally different, but a focus on technology and data infrastructure innovation within the federal government could drive significant job creation.
Apr 10, 2017Economists Slaughter & Rees of the Tuck School debunk Trump's claims about the U.S. trade deficit and its impact on jobs.
Apr 03, 2017While skepticism about government is embedded in America’s DNA, outright distrust is a more recent phenomenon.
Mar 27, 2017Globalization boosts—not lowers—productivity and average incomes, say Matthew Slaughter and Matthew Rees.
Mar 20, 2017Reversing the obesity trend and reducing health-care spending depends on something often overlooked: changes in individual behavior.
Mar 13, 2017A hallmark of the U.S. economy has been its dynamism, but U.S. innovation in the past decade is actually on the decline, say Tuck School’s Slaughter & Rees.
Mar 06, 2017Slaughter & Rees explain how a bilateral investment treaty between the U.S. and China would benefit American companies and workers.
Feb 27, 2017"Many jobs of the future exist today, with many of them simply going unfilled because too few Americans have the skills needed to fill them," say Slaughter & Rees as they discuss the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment results.
Feb 20, 2017