1. Applied Social Research and Paradigm Shifts: The Remaking of the Social Sciences in the Image of War, 1941-1951 • Stefan Bargheer, Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies.

2. Financiers and the Unequal Expansion of University Endowments • Albina Gibadullina, University of British Columbia; Charlie Eaton, University of California Merced.

3. The Politics of Meritocracy from Republicanism to Cosmopolitanism to Populism • Aras Koksal, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.

4. The Neoliberal Way of Quantifying and Reforming Educational Systems: Towards a Genealogy of Quality in Economics of Education • André Martins, University of São Paulo.