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MATTHEW J. SLAUGHTER,
Associate Dean for the MBA Program
Signal Companies Professor of Management
GENERAL INTEREST MEDIA    

In addition to his academic scholarship, in recent years Dean Slaughter has written many general-interest items for the business and policy communities. Slaughter has also given a number of speeches and has testified before both chambers of the U.S. Congress. His work and ideas have been widely featured in business media such as The Economist, BusinessWeek, Financial Times, The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. He has been interviewed on many TV and radio programs such as CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight and NPR's Marketplace. Below are highlights of Slaughter's work, including op-eds, congressional testimony, citations in the press, reports, and various profiles and audio/video clips.

To reach Dean Slaughter for any inquiry regarding a media interview or a speaking engagement, please contact him directly by phone at (603) 646-2939 or by email at matthew.j.slaughter@dartmouth.edu.

  
Opinion Pieces Written by Dean Slaughter  
  • "Time to tackle America’s widening inequality," Financial Times op-ed, October 6, 2009
    Dean Slaughter urges policymakers to focus on fixing the persistent problem of income inequality and provides three proposals that would have immediate effect.

  • "What is an 'American' Car?" The Wall Street Journal op-ed, May 7, 2009.
    Dean Slaughter explains how comparative advantage means each country should concentrate its time and talent on the particular goods and services it is productive at relative to the rest of the world, and why U.S.-based companies need to expand abroad to create and maintain good jobs at good wages.

  • "It’s a Terrible Time to Reject Skilled Workers," with Paul Danos and Robert Hansen, The Wall Street Journal op-ed, March 11, 2009. Three Tuck deans explain how the Employ American Workers Act will not help U.S.-born workers and stimulate the U.S. economy as intended. The U.S. economy is not a fixed size, in which more foreign-born workers necessarily mean fewer U.S. workers. Rather, "Productive foreign-born workers can help create more jobs here," explain the authors. "Keeping them out damages us."

  • "What's Behind the Recent Productivity Slowdown," The Wall Street Journal op-ed, December 13, 2008.
    Dean Slaughter and Martin Neil Baily discuss their new report, which shows that competitive product markets are crucial to higher living standards.

  • "An Auto Bailout Would Be Terrible for Free Trade," The Wall Street Journal op-ed, November 20, 2008.
    Dean Slaughter explains why an auto industry bailout would damage America's engagement in the global economy and hurt U.S. companies, workers, and taxpayers.

  • "Ways to stem the drift into protectionism," with David Marchick, Financial Times op-ed, June 25, 2008.
    Dean Slaughter warns against the growth of barriers to foreign acquisitions.  He recommends that countries narrowly define investment reviews so that such reviews do not slide into economic protectionism.

  • "The Immigrant Gap," The Wall Street Journal op-ed, April 1, 2008.
    Dean Slaughter argues that America's H1-B visa quotas are counterproductive and threaten America's competitiveness.

  • "What Tata Tells Us," The Wall Street Journal op-ed, March 27, 2008.
    Dean Slaughter discusses the benefits of foreign direct investment into the United States, and he outlines the forces driving such "insourcing."

  • "Let's Have a Real Debate on Globalization," The Wall Street Journal op-ed, September 26, 2007, p. A21.
    Dean Slaughter stresses the need for economic policies that simultaneously promote free trade while distributing its benefits as widely as possible.

  • "Faculty Opinion: A New Deal for Globalization," Tuck Today opinion column, Fall 2007.
    Dean Slaughter outlines his solution to America's protectionist drift.

  • "Happy Birthday, ITA," The Wall Street Journal op-ed, July 17, 2007, p. A17.
    Dean Slaughter discusses the importance of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA), which made information technology the only industry to have implemented a comprehensive free-trade agreement in the World Trade Association.

  • "Yuan Worries," The Wall Street Journal op-ed, May 22, 2007, p. A15.
    Dean Slaughter explains that China's dollar-yuan exchange rate target is not what drives its long-run trade imbalances with the United States.
Congressional Testimony by Slaughter  
 
Articles Citing Dean Slaughter  
  • "Exelon to Quit Chamber Over Climate Bill," The New York Times, September 29, 2009
    Dean Slaughter discusses how climate change legislation will have an effect on companies more than other business policy issue.

  • "Business Brawl," Portfolio.com, September 29, 2009
    Dean Slaughter comments on the growing divide in opposition to climate change legislation.

  • "U.S. groups back role of global companies," Financial Times, March 16, 2009.
    The article cites Slaughter’s new report explaining how U.S. multinational companies strengthen, not hurt, the U.S. economy.

  • "What the banks may be hiding," National Public Radio's Marketplace, February 11, 2009.
    Dean Slaughter says there would be a healthy benefit of banks becoming more transparent because it could reduce the degree of uncertainty among investors.

  • "G.M.'s Troubles Stir Question of Bankruptcy,"The New York Times, November 13, 2008.
    Dean Slaughter speaks in favor of assisting U.S. auto workers and their communities rather than particular auto companies.

  • "Beyond Doha," The Economist, October 9, 2008.
    A segment of this year's special report on the world economy discusses trade and investment policy and cites Dean Slaughter and David Marchick's Council on Foreign Relations report that warns of a global shift toward economic protectionism.

  • "Love Me, Love Me Not," The Economist, July 10, 2008.
    Dean Slaughter calls attention to America's protectionist drift and argues that foreign direct investment plays a vital role in economic growth.
  • "Economists Rethink Free Trade," Business Week, January 31, 2008.
    Dean Slaughter discusses America's income growth inequality, and he outlines steps to spread the gains from globalization to more workers.
  • "Bulk of cargo now bound for Asia," NPR Marketplace, November 20, 2007.
    Dean Slaughter says that overseas consumption growth could help stimulate economic expansion worldwide.
  • "Buying Off the Opposition," The Economist, November 8, 2007.
    Dean Slaughter is cited for his Foreign Affairs essay, "A New Deal for Globalization."
  • "Nightly Business Report for Monday, October 15th," PBS Nightly Business Report, October 15, 2007.
    Dean Slaughter points out that inflation adjusted wages have been flat for majority of Americans over the past six years.

  • "Globalization Study Moves Past Rhetoric," in David Wessel's "Capital" column in The Wall Street Journal, July 26, 2007.
    Dean Slaughter is cited for his Financial Services Forum research report, "Succeeding in the Global Economy: A New Policy Agenda for the American Worker."
  • "The 'Insourcing' Problem," The Wall Street Journal house editorial, December 1, 2004.
    Dean Slaughter receives praise for his Organization for International Investment research report, "Insourcing Jobs: Making the Global Economy Work for America."
  • "Outsourcing 101," The Wall Street Journal house editorial, May 27, 2004.
    Dean Slaughter is citied for his Daily Tax Report study, "Globalization and Employment by U.S. Multinationals: A Framework and Facts."
  
Reports by Dean Slaughter  
  • "How U.S. Multinational Companies Strengthen the U.S. Economy," Business Roundtable and The United States Council Foundation, March, 2009.
    Some critics of U.S. multinationals contend that these companies have "abandoned" the United States and that policy needs to rebalance their domestic and international operations. However, Slaughter's report demonstrates that U.S. multinational companies are first and foremost American companies that perform large shares of America's productivity-enhancing activities – capital investment, research and development, and trade – that lead to jobs and high compensation.

  • "Strengthening U.S. Competitiveness in the Global Economy," with Martin N. Baily, Private Equity Council, December, 2008.
    Slaughter, along with noted economist Martin Baily, examines the critical issues facing the U.S. as it seeks to maintain and strengthen its global economic leadership in the 21st Century.

  • "Global FDI Policy: Correcting a Protectionist Drift," with David M. Marchick, Council on Foreign Relations, June, 2008.
    Dean Slaughter tracks the rise of investment protectionism in multiple countries, examines the reasons behind these trends, and outlines recommendations for policy makers.
  • "A New Deal for Globalization," with Kenneth F. Scheve, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2007, pp. 34-47.
    Globalization has brought huge overall benefits, but earnings for most U.S. workers -- even those with college degrees -- have been falling recently; inequality is greater now than at any other time in the last 70 years. Whatever the cause, the result has been a surge in protectionism. To save globalization, policymakers must spread its gains more widely. The best way to do that is by redistributing income.

  • "Succeeding in the Global Economy:  A New Policy Agenda for the American Worker," with Grant D. Aldonas and Robert Z. Lawrence, The Financial Services Forum policy research report, June 2007.
    This report discusses the economic forces driving U.S. protectionist drift and offers a set of innovative policies for both the government and private sector aimed at arresting this drift.
  • "Insourcing Jobs:  Making the Global Economy Work for America," Organization for International Investment research report, October 2004.
    This report discusses how U.S. subsidiaries of foreign-headquartered multinationals contribute to U.S. economic growth and rising U.S. living standards through their operations that are "insourcing" American jobs.

  • "The Life-Cycle of a Minority Owned Business: Implications for the American Economy," with Andrew B. Bernard, Minority Business Development Agency white paper, 2004.
    The success or failure of minority-owned businesses will increasingly drive the success or failure of the overall U.S. economy. We propose an agenda for new research, in which minority business owners and managers must be made full partners.

  • "Technology, Investment, and Trade:  The Public Opinion Disconnect," Emergency Committee for American Trade research report, 2002.
    This study examines the relationship between trade and investment and the growth in the production and use of information and communication technology (ICT) products.  The incentives for companies to produce and/or use ICT technologies depend crucially on the ability of these companies to integrate these technologies into their trade and investment activities worldwide.  Those interested in the continued production and use of ICT products need to be interested in the continued liberalization of trade and investment policies.

  • "Global Investment, American Returns," Emergency Committee for American Trade research report, 1998.
    By raising U.S. worker productivity, American companies with global operations help raise the U.S. standard of living.  Because the foreign and U.S. activities of these companies tend to complement each other, the ability of these companies to help raise U.S. living standards depends crucially on their ability to undertake foreign direct investment (FDI) abroad.  By examining both comprehensive U.S. government statistics and a number of individual-company case studies, the key message is that investments abroad by American-headquartered multinational firms often yield American returns.
  
Profiles, Audio, and Video  
 

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