> 2) To attract good thinkers to become historians, > schools must keep the wage high enough to compete with other > disciplines and occupations that require intelligence. Therefore,
I think this is a big part of it. Compeitition to get into the best humanities programs is as fierce as law school. It's common for humanities Ph.D.'s from good places to jump to law school if academia doesn't work out. Consider the following fact. There are some nations where many faculty are paid badly, where they could be paid better. In Latin America, there are entire departments and universities that are treated the way we treat adjuncts in American. Consequently, they don't attract the best, and are considered frequently to be not very good institutions. Fabio > John-Charles Bradbury, Ph.D.
