Rianne Mahon is Chancellor's Professor and Director of the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University, Ottawa. Stephen McBride is a professor and Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Rianne Mahon and Stephen McBridePart 1: The OECD and Transnational Governance1 From Reconstructing Europe to Constructing Globalization: The OECD in Historical Perspective / Robert Wolfe2 Role of the OECD in the Orchestration of Global Knowledge Networks / Tony Porter and Michael Webb3 Inversions without End: The OECD and Global Public Management Reform / Leslie A. Pal4 Towards Complex Multilateralism? Civil Society and the OECD / Richard Woodward5 Making Neo-Gramscian Sense of the Development Assistance Committee: Towards an Inclusive Neoliberal World Development Order / Arne RuckertPart 2: Governance and Economies6 The OECD and Foreign Investment Rules: The Global Promotion of Liberalization / Russell Alan Williams7 The OECD's Local Turn: "Innovative Liberalism" for the Cities? / Neil Bradford8 Policy Learning? The OECD and Its Jobs Strategy / Stephen McBride, Kathleen McNutt, and Russell Alan Williams9 "Crafting the Conventional Economic Wisdom": The OECD and the Canadian Policy Process / Andrew Jackson10 Lost in Translation? OECD Ideas and Danish Labour Market Policy / Holly GrinvaldsPart 3: Governance and the Social11 The OECD's Guidelines for the Licensing of Genetic Inventions: Policy Learning in Response to the Gene Patenting Controversy / Lisa Drouillard and E. Richard Gold12 The OECD's Social and Health Policy: Neoliberal Stalking Horse or Balancer of Social and Economic Objectives? / Bob Deacon and Alexandra Kaasch13 OECD Education Policies and World Hegemony / Kjell Rubenson14 Babies and Bosses: Gendering the OECD's Social Policy Discourse / Rianne MahonConclusion / Stephen McBride and Rianne MahonReferencesContributors\Index