Falling Behind? : : Boom, Bust, and the Global Race for Scientific Talent / / Michael S. Teitelbaum.
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 po...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of 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