Following his work on monetary crises, Bruno Théret returns in this interview to the historical plurality of the forms of money or of currency. He views public money as state currency, which has assumed different historical forms since the Old Regime. Today, the state is once again viewed...

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...

The sociology of economic policies argued in this article investigates the permanent work of construction, naturalization and maintenance of the economic order made by a multitude of actors and technical instruments. It consists in describing how the doctrinal project of economy disembeddedness...

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...