The Politics of Funding: The Rockfeller Foundation and French Economics, 1945-1955

Serge Benest

No 3gmf5, OSF Preprints from Center for Open Science

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2021-05-26
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