Ehrenberg, Ronald G.2020-11-172020-11-171990-06-014247665https://hdl.handle.net/1813/76055[Excerpt] Very few books by economists are announced to the world in a front page story in the New York Times. However, Prospects for Faculty in the Arts and Sciences by William G. Bowen and Julie Ann Sosa was (see Fiske) and this honor is well deserved. Prospects may well be the most important analysis of the academic labor market to appear since Alan Cartter's pioneering work in the mid-1970s.en-USRequired Publisher Statement: © American Economic Association. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.higher educationfacultyhumanitiessocial scienceslabor supplyunassigned