National Usages for a “Global” Science: The Dissemination of New Economic Paradigms as a Strategy for the Reproduction of Governing Elites

The increasingly rapid internationalization of economic thought makes economics a key field for analyzing the impacts of the international dissemination of knowledge (Fourcade-Gourinchas 2001; Fourcade-Gourinchas and Babb 2002). Those impacts can be traced through the activities both of international producers and of local importers who bring economic knowledge into the very different national structures built through distinct colonial and national histories.