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<b>How the fear of a shortage in American science talent fuels cycles in the technical labor market</b><br /><br /><br /><br />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. <i>Falling Behind?</i> offers careful examinations of the existing evidence and of its use by those involved in these debates.<br /><br />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 expandin