Cash Is Not King
Created in 1947 as the Sixth Section of the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) is usually recognized as the institutional stronghold of the Annales historians. Yet, new archival investigations indicate that the Section was initially conc...
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| Natura: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lingua: | Anglais |
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Revue d’histoire des sciences humaines
2025
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | Created in 1947 as the Sixth Section of the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) is usually recognized as the institutional stronghold of the Annales historians. Yet, new archival investigations indicate that the Section was initially conceived as a training place for economists for postwar reconstruction and, making economics central to its initial agenda. By both following the money trail, examining the scientific research agenda of the Sixth Section, this article endeavors to demonstrate the initial prominence of economics and to explain its subsequent decline within the Section. It unpacks how the Section’s funders sought to reshape the identity of academic economists by reorienting them toward practical expertise, whereas the Section’s economists resisted this patronage aim, uninterested in assuming the role of experts. |
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