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Falling Behind? : Boom, Bust, and the Global Race for Scientific Talent / Michael S. Teitelbaum.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource : 16 line illus. 6 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691154664
  • 9781400850143
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.129150973 23
LOC classification:
  • Q149.U5 T45 2014
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Recent Alarms -- Chapter 2. No Shortage of Shortages -- Chapter 3. Beliefs, Interests, Effects -- Chapter 4. The Influence of Employer and Other Interest Groups -- Chapter 5. What Is the Market Really Like? Supply, Demand, Shortage, Surplus-and Disequilibria -- Chapter 6. The Distinctive U.S. Academic Production Process -- Chapter 7. International Comparisons: Glass Half-Full, Glass Half-Empty? -- Chapter 8. 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 -- Notes -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Recent Alarms -- Chapter 2. No Shortage of Shortages -- Chapter 3. Beliefs, Interests, Effects -- Chapter 4. The Influence of Employer and Other Interest Groups -- Chapter 5. What Is the Market Really Like? Supply, Demand, Shortage, Surplus-and Disequilibria -- Chapter 6. The Distinctive U.S. Academic Production Process -- Chapter 7. International Comparisons: Glass Half-Full, Glass Half-Empty? -- Chapter 8. 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 -- Notes -- Index

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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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