The OECD and the International Political Economy Since 1948

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This book explores the history of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and its place within capitalist development. Since 1948, the OECD and its forerunner, the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) worked on almost every subject of interest to national governments ranging from economic growth to education (PISA rankings), statistics, to the environment. With varying success the OEEC/OECD thus played a key role as a warden of the West and of capitalist development. However, it has remained one of the least understood international organizations. Bringing together a number of case studies by scholars from around the world, this first source-based volume on the history of the OEEC/OECD in global governance offers not only a new understanding of the Organization’s key areas of activities, but also its multiple relations to member states, other international organizations, and private networks. The volume thus critically re-examines postwar international history, most importantly decolonization and the Cold War, through the prism of one international organization in its various contexts. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Introduction: Writing Histories of the OECD (Matthieu Leimgruber, Matthias Schmelzer)....Pages 1-22 From the Marshall Plan to Global Governance: Historical Transformations of the OEEC/OECD, 1948 to Present (Matthieu Leimgruber, Matthias Schmelzer)....Pages 23-61 Front Matter ....Pages 63-63 Western European Vs. All-European Cooperation? The OEEC, the European Recovery Program, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), 1947–1952 (Daniel Stinsky)....Pages 65-88 A Socialist Developing Country in a Western Capitalist Club: Yugoslavia and the OEEC/OECD, 1955–1980 (Andrej Marković, Ivan Obadić)....Pages 89-111 Shall We or Shall We Not? The Japanese, Australian, and New Zealand Decisions to Apply for Membership in the OECD, 1960–1973 (Peter Carroll)....Pages 113-136 The Construction of a Western Voice: OECD and the First UNCTAD of 1964 (Patricia Hongler)....Pages 137-158 Front Matter ....Pages 159-159 From Post-war Reconstruction to Multi-level Neo-corporatism: The OEEC/OECD and Steel During the Cold War (Wolfram Kaiser)....Pages 161-184 A Crisis Manager for the International Monetary and Financial System? The Rise and Fall of the OECD Working Party 3, 1961–1980 (Kazuhiko Yago)....Pages 185-208 Peer Pressure in Paris: Country Reviews at the OECD in the 1960s and 1970s (William Glenn Gray)....Pages 209-231 “Positive Adjustments”: The Emergence of Supply-Side Economics in the OECD and G7, 1970–1984 (Samuel Beroud)....Pages 233-258 Front Matter ....Pages 259-259 The Narrowing-Down of the OEEC/OECD Migration Functions, 1947–1986 (Emmanuel Comte, Simone Paoli)....Pages 261-283 Engineering the Free World: The Emergence of the OECD as an Actor in Education Policy, 1957–1972 (Regula Bürgi)....Pages 285-309 Negotiating Environment: The Making of the OECD Environment Committee and the Polluter Pays Principle, 1968–1972 (Iris Borowy)....Pages 311-334 Gendering Development: The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee, 1981–2000 (Rianne Mahon)....Pages 335-356 Back Matter ....Pages 357-363