Sender: [log in to unmask] [Roy Weintraub] 
Subject: Re: HES: QUERY -- Refereeing references 
 
> I am not quite sure what Roy's student means by "refereeing process".  
> However, there is some research on the results of blind versus 
> double-blind refereeing from the point of view of gender bias and about 
> the effect of women authors's names, by Marianne Ferber and several 
> coauthors. These are listed in the references to Ferber and Julie 
> Nelson's essay in _Beyond Economic Man_, which I haven't with me 
> now. The articles themselve, as I recall them, cite similar literature. 
>  
> Mary Ann 
>  
The query seems to have produced some confusion. It was, in fact, a   
"history of economics" question: have there been examinations of the  
evolution of refereeing practices? For instance, in early days of the  
EJ, the editor himself appears to have made all publishing calls,  
perhaps with a near-to-hand reader to confirm a point or two. We do  
not operate this way today. How and why did these practices evolve:  
there are certainly archival repositories of editorial correspondence  
which some may have examined ...  
Thanks. 
 
[Roy Weintraub] 
 
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