The writing of a “transversal” report on employment at the OECD is examined by focusing not on the finished product but, instead, on the drafting of the report. This approach allows for exploring the dynamics of power at work inside the OECD. It opens toward broader considerations about how...

This article focuses on how OECD tackled the question of unemployment in the 1990s and 2000s. How was its credibility as economic institutional expert affected by such an increasingly serious “problem” ? To what extent did the unemployment crisis put the International Organization to a test...

This contribution analyzes one of the OECD's «neo-liberal turning points» during the second half of the 1970s: the McCracken Report (OECD 1977). This report, which had been commissioned by the U.S. State Department between the two oil crises, crystallized the OECD's experts standpoint on the...

This contribution analyzes one of the OECD's neo-liberal inflection during the second half of the 1970s: the McCracken Report (OECD 1977) mandated by US administration. This study of McCracken report gives us a better understanding of how the OECD contributed to the «Washington consensus», a...

The last five years have witnessed a great momentum in the research into measures of financial risk. After many years of ad-hoc and non-consistent measures, now the problem is finally well formulated and some useful and very user-friendly solutions have been proposed. These new measures of risk...