... close to the natural sciences. The same was true of leading postwar economists, and yet they alone opted out, with only a few exceptions. We explore this divide as it emerged in the early development of the Ford Foundation's Behavioral Sciences Program (BSP). We describe early efforts to incorporate...

... and the University of São Paulo, financially backed by USAID and the Ford Foundation. This article recovers the early postwar origins of this partnership, the process through which it was implemented during the 1960s, and its influence in reshaping Brazilian scholarly standards. Just as the University of Chicago...

...E. Roy Weintraub This paper reviews Craufurd Goodwin’s distinctive role as scholar-administrator from his arrival as a student at Duke in 1955 to his move to the Ford Foundation in 1970. Craufurd Goodwin international programs Duke administration Taylor Cole Copyright © 2019 Duke...

... received privileged benefits in the international exchange programs sponsored by North American agencies such as USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) and the Ford Foundation in the 1960s and 1970s. Since 1966 fourteen graduate programs have been created in differ- ent parts...

... Moderno, the Universidad de los Andes, and the Universidad Nacional in Bogotá, as well as the Grants and Fellowship Files of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Population Council archives. We then selected a framework of themes to be explored during our conversations that covered...

... Archive Center, Tarrytown, NY. 6. W. Ladejinsky, “The Status of the Land Reform Program in India.” August 4, 1954. Ford Foundation records, catalogued reports, report 002269. Rockefeller Archive Center, Tarrytown, NY. 7. W. Ladejinsky, “Observations on the Package Program.” Ford Foundation...

...Michael Nacht Craufurd Goodwin, in addition to being a noted scholar of the history of economic thought, was an exceptionally effective philanthropy administrator and the coauthor of five publications on international education. philanthropy administrator Ford Foundation Office of European...

... Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction. Lazarsfeld , Paul F. , and Thielens Wagner Jr 1958 . The Academic Mind: Social Scientists in a Time of Crisis . Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press. Leonard , Robert 1991 . To Advance Human Welfare!: Economics and the Ford Foundation, 1950–1968. In Essays in the History...

... . Fogel Robert W. Fogel Enid M. Guglielmo Mark Grotte Nathaniel . 2013 . Political Arithmetic: Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics . Chi-cago : University of Chicago Press . Ford Foundation . 1961 . Annual Report . New York : Ford Foundation...

... and was established as a nonprofit organization, with H. Rowan Gaither Jr. as chairman of the board of trustees. Gaither was involved with the Ford Foundation (from 1951 by far the largest American philanthropy) and was involved in writing the founda- tion’s statement of aims. Faced with the choice between...

... then, the microsimulation was renamed to the Project MUSE (Simulation Models of the United States Economy) joint project with the Ford Foundation. 33. Orcutt to Shubik, May 28, 1964, folder: 1964 (3 of 4), box 10, Martin Shubik Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University. 34. Laura Smail...

... Action in the War on Poverty . New York: Free Press. O’Connor Alice . 1996 . Community Action, Urban Reform, and the Fight against Poverty: The Ford Foundation’s Gray Areas Program. Journal of Urban History 22.5 : 586 –625. ———. 2001 . Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy...

... research organization, ZWO, and the Ford Foundation, and it also involved a research assistant, Marie Bemelmans- Videc. One part of this research involved the idea, possibly suggested by Alec Cairncross or John Jewkes,11 of bringing together all the econo- mists who had been head of the Government...

...- tory and fiction. This is not an autobiography. We learn almost nothing personal; few of those he met along the way are mentioned, and little is said about how those contacts shaped the author’s career. Two and one-half years at the Ford Foundation...

... appreciation to the Ford Foundation for a grant received through the Israel Foundation Trust- Acknowledgments 3 ees which enabled me to devote my free time to work on this essay. Grants to cover the costs of research and typing assistance were received...

..., but only after he became a member of Cowles did he unambiguously adopt it.8 It was when Thomas Carroll, dean of the business school of the Univer- sity of North Carolina, conducted a survey on “economics and the behav- ioral sciences” on behalf of the Ford Foundation in 1952 that Marschak provided...

... most of these aspects, to the notable exception of funding (in chapter 7). Their approach, consequently, seems less relevant when the discussion between the protagonists pri- marily involves other external aspects, politics in particular. It is, for instance, the case with the Ford Foundation s...

... undergoing scienticization under the patronage of the Ford Foundation (Khurana 2007; Augier and March 2011). The archetypal example of this transformation was Carnegie Tech s Graduate School of Industrial Administration, headed by the economist Georges Leland Bach, where Herbert Simon, Richard Bellman...

... grants, comments on, 75–76 papers, 250 Ford, Henry and Edsel, 77 Dante, writings on, 229, 240–41 Ford Foundation economics, connection to, 243–48 business education reform, 72 Mathematical Introduction to Eco- generosity of, 77–78 nomics (Evans...

... “solid” scientis- tic tendencies within manyof the social sciences. For instance, the Ford Foundation’s initiative in “behavioral science” in the 1950s was an um- brella for encouraging a mélange of quantification, formalization, sta- tistical hypothesis testing, and research focused intently...