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Woe of the PhDs

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07 March 2020, 12:11 AM
Axtremus
Woe of the PhDs
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/0...-job-crisis-phd.html

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The humanities labor market is in crisis. Higher education industry trade publications are full of essays by young Ph.D.s who despair of ever finding a steady job. Phrases like “unfolding catastrophe” and “extinction event” are common. The number of new jobs for English professors has fallen every year since 2012, by a total of 33 percent.
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07 March 2020, 12:58 AM
Piano*Dad
A lot of old fart humanities professors will be retiring over the next decade. Even if the humanities shrink a bit there will be a demand for new PhDs to replace the exiting ones.
07 March 2020, 06:16 AM
jon-nyc
Fields where the only desirable career path is academia itself look a lot like Ponzi schemes.


Or as Eric Weinstein would say, they are institutions with embedded growth obligations.


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