Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-254) and index
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 critiqu
