ABSTRACT
The reasons, purposes, proposals, and practical measures of each educational reform that becomes law are influenced by the published diagnoses of the ills besetting education, and more importantly, by those that reach the widest audiences. The importance of financial education for the OECD, which justifies its incorporation in PISA 2012, is condensed in a series of arguments that implicitly eliminate the need for a welfare state. The OECD's PISA project can be seen as an undercover way of putting pressure on countries to reform their education policies. It is important to remember that one of the aims of the political dynamics that the various players in society set in motion is to influence and condition government decisions, and therefore also to influence education policy and practice. From the standpoint of the most powerful and ideologically conservative lobbies, the social sciences, philosophy, humanities and arts are potentially much more dangerous for the prevailing political, cultural and economic powers.
