Manufacturing and Society in the 21st Century

Background Resources

The Future Is More Than Facebook (Rich Karlgaard, Opinion, The Wall Street Journal, May 16, 2012)

Deputy Secretary of Commerce Blank Delivers Remarks to Manufacturing Program event on "the German Model” (May 16, 2012); and Presentation Charts (PDF)

Patrick Gallagher, Under Secretary of Commerce and NIST Director, Remarks to Manufacturing Program event on “the German Model” (Presentation Charts PDF) May 16, 2012

Friedrich Hubert Esser, President, Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training [BIBB]), Remarks to Manufacturing Program event on “the German Model” (Presentation Charts PDF) May 16, 2012

Dietmar Harhoff, Chairman, Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation, Remarks to Manufacturing Program event on “the German Model” (Presentation Charts PDF) May 16, 2012

German Center for Research and Innovation (GCRI) on the Aspen Manufacturing Program event on the “German Model”, May 16, 2012

"A Northern Tiger? Canada’s Economic and Fiscal Renaissance and Its Implications for the United States,"PDF, Jeremy A. Leonard, March 2012

What Germany offers the world, (The Economist, April 14, 2012)

"O Canada!", Analysis of the New Manufacturing & Society paper on Canadian reform, Ike Brannon and Logan Albright (The Weekly Standard Blog, March 28, 2012)

If Canada can fix its economy, then so can U.S., Carter Wood (Business Roundtable Blog, April 2, 2012)

Canada: A Northern Tiger, Michael Hendrix (National Chamber Foundation Blog, April 2, 2012)

Tom Duesterberg: Is Outsourcing R&D Hurting U.S. Manufacturing? (Harvard Business Review March 16, 2012)

"Understanding International Trade in an Era of Globalization: A Value-Added Approach," PDF, Yingying Xu, Economist, Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation (MAPI), March 2012

MAPI Quarterly U.S. Industrial Outlook, Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation, March 2012

Innovation, Production, and Sustainable Job Creation: Reviving U.S. Prosperity (Dan Breznitz and Peter Cowhey, Connect Innovation Institute, February 2012)

China’s Growth and Trade: Consequences for the US Economy (Dan Glickman, Executive Director and Moderator, The Aspen Institute, February 18-20, 2012)

The Outsized Benefits of U.S. Manufacturing. Howard Wial and Jonathan Rothwell, The Brookings Institution, (Up Front Blog, February 17, 2012

Regarding recent Manufacturing and Society event, Why We Should Thank the Chinese Currency Manipulators (Mark J. Perry, The American, December 2, 2011)

"The Apple Business Model Is Good for U.S. Manufacturing” Thomas J. Duesterberg (The Huffington Post, November 2, 2011)

Chicago Fed Chief Economist Bill Strauss presentation on the Manufacturing Economy: Is the U.S. Losing Its Manufacturing Base? (November 15, 2011) (PDF)

U.S. Manufacturing Has a Key Role in the U. S. Economy of the Future Thomas J. Duesterberg (The Huffington Post, October 19, 2011)

Watch "The US and Its Manufacturing Future" from the Aspen Ideas Festival.

Reasons To Be Bullish About American Manufacturing by Tom Duesterberg (IndustryWeek, April 2011)

Aspen and the Future of Manufacturing (Harvard Business Review, July 7, 2011)

Facts About Modern Manufacturing (PDF, 4 MB)

NAM’s Frank Vargo on “U.S. Trade Policy and American Manufacturing” (October 2011) (PDF)

The Case for a National Manufacturing Strategy (Stephen Ezell and Robert D. Atkinson, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, April 26, 2011)

BSA 2011 Global IT Competitiveness Index Shows U.S. in Lead (Economist Intelligence Unit; Business Software Association, 2011)

Tom Duesterberg's Congressional Testimony on The Globalization of R&D and Innovation (2007) (PDF)

Tom Duesterberg's Congressional Testimony on Trade with China (2006) (PDF)

Index of Unit Labor Costs in Leading Manufacturing Countries (PDF)