9 “Crafting the Conventional Economic Wisdom”: The OECD and the Canadian Policy Process

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 3
5. The OECD and Transnational Governance
6. From Reconstructing Europe to Constructing Globalization: The OECD in Historical Perspective 25
7. Role of the OECD in the Orchestration of Global Knowledge Networks 43
8. Inversions without End: The OECD and Global Public Management Reform 60
9. Towards Complex Multilateralism? Civil Society and the OECD 77
10. Making Neo-Gramscian Sense of the Development Assistance Committee: Towards an Inclusive Neoliberal World Development Order 96
11. Governance and Economies
12. The OECD and Foreign Investment Rules: The Global Promotion of Liberalization 117
13. The OECD’s Local Turn: “Innovative Liberalism” for the Cities? 134
14. Policy Learning? The OECD and Its Jobs Strategy 152
15. “Crafting the Conventional Economic Wisdom”: The OECD and the Canadian Policy Process 170
16. Lost in Translation? OECD Ideas and Danish Labour Market Policy 188
17. Governance and the Social
18. The OECD Guidelines for the Licensing of Genetic Inventions: Policy Learning in Response to the Gene Patenting Controversy 205
19. The OECD’s Social and Health Policy: Neoliberal Stalking Horse or Balancer of Social and Economic Objectives? 226
20. OECD Education Policies and World Hegemony 242
21. Babies and Bosses: Gendering the OECD’s Social Policy Discourse 260
22. Conclusion 276
23. Abbreviations 282
24. References 285
25. Contributors 307
26. Index 310