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title: "Should We Expect Multinationals to Be Loyal?"
summary: |-
  What can be done in the U.S. economy to turn things around in the age of globalization?
date: "2012-09-19"
issues: ["National Competitiveness"]
authors: ["Robert D. Atkinson"]
content_type: "Op-Eds & Contributed Articles"
canonical_url: "https://itif.org/publications/2012/09/19/should-we-expect-multinationals-be-loyal/"
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# Should We Expect Multinationals to Be Loyal?

Are U.S. corporations less "loyal" to their home country than those of other nations? Could that be part of a national tradition in a continent-sized economy? And what can be done in the U.S. economy to turn things around in the age of globalization? These are key questions to which Robert Atkinson, author of *Innovation Economics*, provides compelling answers in this op-ed for "The Globalist."

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*Source: Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)*
*URL: https://itif.org/publications/2012/09/19/should-we-expect-multinationals-be-loyal/*