Two days ago, I posted AHA data on the glut of history PhDs in the United States. Today, the Conference Board of Canada, the mouthpiece of big business in this country, has published a study complaining that Canada produces too few PhDs. In Canada, 209 people complete PhDs out of every 100,000 between the ages of 25 and 29 . The figures in other countries are: the United States 289 per 100,000; France 259 per 100,000; and Japan 210 per 100,000.
Is this necessarily a bad thing? I don’t know. People with PhDs helped to plan the Iraq War.
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Apparently the Conference Board is specifically worried that “Canada’s private sector does not provide strong enough incentives for students to strive for advanced science and technology skills and for business management skills. Compared to firms in the U.S., Canadian firms across most industries hire fewer Ph.D. graduates and pay them less.”
So at least based on those concerns, it’s probably safe to say that the CB wouldn’t push for more of those PhDs most likely to dream up theoretically elegant invasion schemes. Or to write anything interesting.