The OECD and transnational governance / edited by Rianne Mahon and Stephen McBride.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-306) and index.

Introduction / Rianne Mahon and Stephen McBride -- Pt. 1. The OECD and Transnational Governance -- 1. From Reconstructing Europe to Constructing Globalization: The OECD in Historical Perspective / Robert Wolfe -- 2. Role of the OECD in the Orchestration of Global Knowledge Networks / Tony Porter and Michael Webb -- 3. Inversions without End: The OECD and Global Public Management Reform / Leslie A. Pal -- 4. Towards Complex Multilateralism? Civil Society and the OECD / Richard Woodward -- 5. Making Neo-Gramscian Sense of the Development Assistance Committee: Towards an Inclusive Neoliberal World Development Order / Arne Ruckert -- Pt. 2. Governance and Economies -- 6. The OECD and Foreign Investment Rules: The Global Promotion of Liberalization / Russell Alan Williams -- 7. The OECD's Local Turn: "Innovative Liberalism" for the Cities? / Neil Bradford -- 8. Policy Learning? The OECD and Its Jobs Strategy / Stephen McBride, Kathleen McNutt and Russell Alan Williams -- 9. "Crafting the Conventional Economic Wisdom": The OECD and the Canadian Policy Process / Andrew Jackson -- 10. Lost in Translation? OECD Ideas and Danish Labour Market Policy / Holly Grinvalds -- Pt. 3. Governance and the Social -- 11. The OECD's Guidelines for the Licensing of Genetic Inventions: Policy Learning in Response to the Gene Patenting Controversy / Lisa Drouillard and E. Richard Gold -- 12. The OECD's Social and Health Policy: Neoliberal Stalking Horse or Balancer of Social and Economic Objectives? / Bob Deacon and Alexandra Kaasch -- 13. OECD Education Policies and World Hegemony / Kjell Rubenson -- 14. Babies and Bosses: Gendering the OECD's Social Policy Discourse / Rianne Mahon -- Conclusion / Stephen McBride and Rianne Mahon.