PEAT 'Shortage' Reading List:

Heading off a Ph.D. Shortage by John Vaughn and Robert Rosenzweig of the Association of American Universities

• Bogus Study About Scientists by Rep. Howard Wolpe (D-Michigan)

• Too Many Scientists? Don't Believe It by James J. Duderstadt (as Chairman of the National Science Board in response to Bogus Study About Scientists  above).

• Too Many Engineers, Too Few Jobs by Michael S. Teitelbaum

• The False Alarm of Too Many Scientists by Jagdish Bhagwati and Milind Rao

• Surplus In Science by Daniel S. Greenberg

• No Ph.D. Glut In Science And Engineering by Phillip Griffiths (A response to Surplus in Science above)

• Of Semantics And The Scientist Population: Are There Too Many Of Us? by Elie A. Shneour

 
• Doctorate surplus in science, engineering is ongoing, researchers say

(Article about the Massy-Goldman study)

• The Numbers Game and Graduate Education by Richard C. Atkinson (former head of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

• NSF Stance on 'Skills Shortage' by Walter E. Massey (as Director of the National Science Foundation).

• Jobless with a Ph.D. by Daniel S. Greenberg

• Statement Before the Senate Judiciary Committee by Dr. David Auston, Provost Rice University (representing the Association of American Universities, American Council on Education, Council of Graduate Schools, College and University Personnel Association, Association of International Educators, National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges).

• The Big Crunch by David Goodstein

• Keynote Address Workshop on Graduate Education in Astronomy by Phillip Griffiths (representing the views of the National Academy of Sciences).

 
• Too Many Physicians is a Bad Prescription for America by Neal A. Vanselow and Don E. Detmer

• Scientific Elites and Scientific Illiterates by David Goodstein

• Preparing Future Ph.D.'s For A Changing Job Market by Richard N. Zare as chairman of the National Science Board

• No PhD's Need Apply by Sharon Begley, Lucy Shackelford, and Adam Rogers

• Malthus And Graduate Students: Checks On Burgeoning Ranks Of Ph.D.'s By Jesse H. Ausubel

• Cargo Cult Science -- Revisited by Thomas. M. Georges