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Energizing Finance: The Energy Crisis, Oil Futures, and Neoliberal Narratives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2019

CALEB WELLUM
CALEB WELLUM*
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Caleb Wellum is a 2019–2020 Energy Futures Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He is a historian of the twentieth-century United States and currently is at work on a book about the 1970s energy crisis. Department of Communication Arts, Modern Languages Building, Room 233, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, N2L 3G1. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

This article examines the origins and development of oil futures trading in the United States to demonstrate the important role that energy concerns played in the financialization of the U.S. economy in the 1970s and 1980s. The article contextualizes the emergence of oil futures contracts by narrating the longer history of U.S. futures markets and financialization. It also explores the halting development of oil futures contracts, and analyzes the three kinds of legitimating narratives that accompanied oil futures trading: reason, the primacy of price, and power. As a whole, the article argues that energy crisis discourse contributed significantly to the financialization of the U.S. economy by framing futures markets as the only viable solution to the energy crisis. The much-celebrated oil futures contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange supported and marked the emergent power of financial thinking as the United States entered a neoliberal era.

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Enterprise & Society , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , March 2020 , pp. 2 - 37
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Copyright © The Author 2019. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. 

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