The Rockefeller System on Trial: Luigi Einaudi and the Selection of Italian Scholars for the Social Sciences (1926-1931)

In line with the expectations of Wilsonian universalism, after the First World War, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial under the management of Beardsley Ruml not only oriented the field of social sciences towards a clearer disciplinary and methodological definition, but also allocated substantial funds from 1924 onwards to grant fellowships to a number of young American and European scholars. They thus found themselves assuming a crucial function in the construction and redistribution of...