Margarita Fajardo
Professional affiliation
Expertise
- Economics and Globalization
- Global Health
- Global Governance
- Governance
- History
- International Development
- Society and Culture
Wilson Center Projects
Taming Markets: Latin America in the Global Neoliberal Era
Full Biography
Margarita Fajardo is a professor at Sarah Lawrence College. She specializes in modern Latin American history, particularly in the history of Chile, Brazil, and Colombia, and on the history of economics, economic policymaking, and economic life. Her first book, The World that Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era, received LASA鈥檚 Best Book in Politics and Economics in 2023. She has received fellowships from the Duke Center for the History of Political Economy and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. Her publications appear in leading academic journals including the Latin American Research Review and the American Historical Review. She is currently working on a second book project tentatively titled Taming Markets on the history of inflation and commodity regulation in the transition to a neoliberal order in Latin America.
Major Publications
- The World that Latin America Created, Harvard University Press, 2023
- 鈥淐EPAL, the International Monetary Fund of the Left? The Tale of Two Global Institutions,鈥 American Historical Review, 128, 2, June 2023