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The Politics of Funding: the Rockefeller Foundation and French Economics, 1945–1955

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    (CSO - Centre de sociologie des organisations (Sciences Po, CNRS) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UB - Universitat de Barcelona)

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Following World War II, the director of the social sciences division at the Rockefeller Foundation, the industrial economist Joseph H. Willits, thought it important to extend its activities to Europe, especially France. His agenda was to strengthen institutional economics and to create modern research centers with a view to stabilizing the political situation. In the postwar decade, almost all economic research centers in France were funded by the Foundation, which helped provide greater autonomy to French economists within academia but failed to reshape French economic training and research.

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  • Serge Benest, 2022. "The Politics of Funding: the Rockefeller Foundation and French Economics, 1945–1955," SciencePo Working papers Main hal-03779060, HAL.
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    DOI: 10.1017/s1053837221000274
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