Taming Markets: Latin America in the Global Neoliberal Order.

The fellowship will support training, research, and writing. of the book project tentatively titled Taming Markets: Latin America

in the Global Neoliberal Order. In what became a moment of policy experimentation in the 1970s and 1980s, market-driven, financial

institutions and strategies such as commodity exchanges and futures markets began to compete with the existing but renewed

arsenal of state-led mechanisms such as commodity agreements, cartels, and price controls in an effort to tame markets in period of

economic distress at the global level and political repression in the region. The book project will investigate the emergence,

transformation, and impact of those institutions, policies, and everyday practices aiming at taming and markets and controlling prices

in a context of a sweeping neoliberal turn that promised to freed markets once and for all. The book expects to make several scholarly

and societal contributions. Instead of asking about the origins and politics of freeing markets like the existing multidisciplinary

literature on neoliberalism, this book aims to flip the question and examine the politics of taming of markets. With regards to Latin

American history, this book project opens the black box of economic policymaking during military regimes while exploring economic

life beyond the well-trodden myths of "economic miracle" or "pauperization" that surround them. Finally, the book fills this book fills

an overwhelming gap on the history of global finance by examining the rise and use of trade institutions and finance instruments in

the developing world. Beyond scholarly goals, the book is part of a broader project of increasing financial and economic literacy in the humanities.