Is American Science in Decline?

by Alexandra A. Killewald and Yu Xie

Alarmists argue that the United States urgently needs more and better-trained scientists to compete with the rest of the world. Their critics counter that, far from facing a shortage, we are producing a glut of young scientists with poor employment prospects. Both camps have issued reports in recent years that predict the looming decline of American science. Drawing on their extensive analysis of national data sets, Yu Xie and Alexandra Killewald...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674052420
• ISBN13: 9780674052420
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"