HES: Re: ANN--European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH)

[Perry Mehrling]

Mary S. Morgan wrote:
> While it 
> is no doubt likely that economists approaching this assessment task will 
> use journals to "signal" something about their notions of quality, our 
> colleagues in history tell us that there is no heirarchy of 
> journals/publishers etc, and that they will read everything! 


Why, given that "time is scarce", are historians more willing to read everything than are economists?  

Perry Mehrling