Also useful: "The Research Bust:" http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Research-Bust/129930/ http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Research-Bust/129930/ It focu

Also useful: "The Research Bust:" http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Research-Bust/129930/ http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Research-Bust/129930/ It focuses mostly on the humanities; I think the simple answer is that tenure, promotion, publishing, and hiring have settled into a negative equilibrium, but no individual has the power to alter the equilibrium, even when an individual recognizes the problems.