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Falling behind? : boom, bust, and the global race for scientific talent / Michael S. Teitelbaum.
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Teitelbaum, Michael S.
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2014]
©2014
Description
267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Available Online
De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Firestone Library - Stacks
Q149.U5 T45 2014
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Career education
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United States
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Competition, International
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Employment (Economic theory)
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Engineers
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Employment
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Scientists
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Summary note
"Is the United States falling behind in the global race for scientific and engineering talent? Are U.S. employers facing shortages of the skilled workers that they need to compete in a globalized world? Such claims from some employers and educators have been widely embraced by mainstream media and political leaders, and have figured prominently in recent policy debates about education, federal expenditures, tax policy, and immigration. Falling Behind? offers careful examinations of the existing evidence and of its use by those involved in these debates. These concerns are by no means a recent phenomenon. Examining historical precedent, Michael Teitelbaum highlights five episodes of alarm about "falling behind" that go back nearly seventy years to the end of World War II. In each of these episodes the political system responded by rapidly expanding the supply of scientists and engineers, but only a few years later political enthusiasm or economic demand waned. Booms turned to busts, leaving many of those who had been encouraged to pursue science and engineering careers facing disheartening career prospects. Their experiences deterred younger and equally talented students from following in their footsteps--thereby sowing the seeds of the next cycle of alarm, boom, and bust. Falling Behind? examines these repeated cycles up to the present, shedding new light on the adequacy of the science and engineering workforce for the current and future needs of the United States."-- Publisher's description.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographic references (pages [225]-254) and index.
Contents
Introduction
Recent alarms
No shortage of shortages
Beliefs, interests, effects
The influence of employer and other interest groups
What is the market really like? supply, demand, shortage, surplus - and disequilibria
The distinctive U.S. academic production process
International comparisons: glass half-full, glass half-empty?
Making things work better
Appendix A: Controversy about the meaning of Sputnik
Appendix B: Evolution of the National Institutes of Health
Appendix C: "A nation at risk" and the Sandia critique.
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ISBN
9780691154664 ((hardback))
069115466X ((hardback))
1400850142
9781400850143
LCCN
2013957467
OCLC
861542573
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