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Subject(s)

• Career education—United States [Browse]
• Competition, International [Browse]
• Employment (Economic theory) [Browse]
• Engineers—Employment—United States [Browse]
• Scientists—Employment—United States [Browse]

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.

ISBN

• 069115466X
• 9780691154664 (hbk.)

LCCN

2013957467

OCLC

861542573