In this article we reflect about the dissemination of economic ideas among international organizations by looking at the case of the OECD and its views on education from the early sixties to the mid-eighties. Although previous studies have tended to present the OECD as an early supporter of human capital ideas, our analysis will highlight the strong and persistent resistances of this organization throughout the 1960s and 1970s to human capital theory. The analysis of major institutional events, projects, and reports of that period point out to an institutional context dominated by other views about education that reflected in its policy recommendations. This text will provide an interesting example about the dissemination of economic ideas ...
Training policy in the developed world is increasingly influenced by the perception that the future ...
The late 1950s witnessed what has been described as a “human capital revolution in economic thought”...
This article reviews the role of the OECD, a much cited but little studied institution, in global go...
In this paper we propose a broad survey of the main trends in the history of economic thought relati...
This article suggests that it is in the vicissitudes of the OECD’s internal developments that we can...
In general, research findings on the emergence of international assessments focus on the time period...
The new discipline of the economics of education promised solutions to the problems arising from bac...
Today, national education polices are increasingly informed and affected by an international educati...
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has been influential in domestic ed...
This article deals with the history of the OECD from 1961 to the mid-1990s. Even though there will b...
In 2011, the OECD turned fifty. To provide a broad foundation for further thinking on this organizat...
In this article I will try to demonstrate that the rift between Greek political parties concerning ...
In this paper we propose a broad survey of the main trends in the history of economic thought relati...
This review essay discusses the history, evolution and development of the Organisation for Economic ...
Human capital was defined by Gary Becker (1975) as ‘any stock of knowledge or characteristics the wo...
Training policy in the developed world is increasingly influenced by the perception that the future ...
The late 1950s witnessed what has been described as a “human capital revolution in economic thought”...
This article reviews the role of the OECD, a much cited but little studied institution, in global go...
In this paper we propose a broad survey of the main trends in the history of economic thought relati...
This article suggests that it is in the vicissitudes of the OECD’s internal developments that we can...
In general, research findings on the emergence of international assessments focus on the time period...
The new discipline of the economics of education promised solutions to the problems arising from bac...
Today, national education polices are increasingly informed and affected by an international educati...
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has been influential in domestic ed...
This article deals with the history of the OECD from 1961 to the mid-1990s. Even though there will b...
In 2011, the OECD turned fifty. To provide a broad foundation for further thinking on this organizat...
In this article I will try to demonstrate that the rift between Greek political parties concerning ...
In this paper we propose a broad survey of the main trends in the history of economic thought relati...
This review essay discusses the history, evolution and development of the Organisation for Economic ...
Human capital was defined by Gary Becker (1975) as ‘any stock of knowledge or characteristics the wo...
Training policy in the developed world is increasingly influenced by the perception that the future ...
The late 1950s witnessed what has been described as a “human capital revolution in economic thought”...
This article reviews the role of the OECD, a much cited but little studied institution, in global go...