Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak
Associate Professor
- Department: Economics and Management
Professor Suprinyak joined Â̾ÞÈËÊÓƵ inÌý2021, afterÌýworking for 10 years at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), in Brazil. He was also a visiting fellow at the University of Chicago, Duke University, and Université Lumière Lyon 2, and a guest lecturer at the University of Barcelona and the Higher School of Economics inÌýMoscow. He is currently Vice President of the Latin American Society for the History of Economic Thought (ALAHPE) and Secretary of the History of Economics Society (HES). He is also a co-editor ofÌýResearch in the History of Economic Thought andÌýMethodologyÌý(¸é±á·¡°Õ²Ñ).
Suprinyak specializes in the history of political economy, with background training in economic methodology, economic history, international trade theory, and development economics. His researchÌýexplores the intersections between economics and politics in different historical settings:Ìýearly modern arguments about trade policy, the reconstruction of the world order in interwar Europe,Ìýand the shaping of the economics profession inÌýLatin America during the Cold War.
Besides numerousÌýpapers in peer-reviewed journals,ÌýSuprinyak isÌýco-editor ofÌýThe Political EconomyÌýof Latin American IndependenceÌý(Routledge, 2017) andÌýPolitical Economy and International Order in Interwar EuropeÌý(Palgrave, 2020). His scholarship has been recognized with multipleÌýawards. In 2017 and again in 2023, he won the Craufurd Goodwin Best Article in the History of Economics Prize, awarded by the History of Economics Society. He also received the 2019 ESHET Young Researcher Award,Ìýgiven by the European Society for the History of Economic Thought for outstanding contributions to the history of economics by scholars under 40 years of age.
Education/Degrees
- Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches en Sciences Économiques, Université Bourgogne - Franche-Comté (2021)
- Ph.D. in Economics, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (2010)
- M.A. in Economic History, Universidade Estadual Paulista (2006)
- B.A. in Economics, Universidade Federal do Paraná (2004)
Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLES
- Suprinyak, C.E. & Fernández, R.G. (2023). 'La Fundación Ford y la formación de una comunidad académica pluralista de economistas en Brasil, 1961-1979’,ÌýEstudios SociológicosÌý41(número especial): 101-130.
- Suprinyak, C.E. & Fernández, R.G. (2022). 'Funding Policy Research under "Distasteful Regimes": The Ford Foundation and the Social Sciences in Brazil, 1964-71',ÌýJournal of Latin American StudiesÌý54(3): 405-430.
- Carvalho, A.R. & Suprinyak, C.E. (2022). 'An Emigrant Economist in the Tropics: Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen on Brazilian Inflation and Development',ÌýCambridge Journal of EconomicsÌý46(3): 561-579.
- Suprinyak, C.E. (2022). ‘Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Development Economist’,ÌýJournal of the History of Economic ThoughtÌý44(2): 205-225.
- Suprinyak, C.E. & Fernández, R.G. (2021). ‘The "Vanderbilt Boys" and the Modernization of Brazilian Economics’,ÌýHistory of Political EconomyÌý53(5): 893-924.
- Suprinyak, C.E. & Oliveira, T.D. (2021). ‘The Unsettled Legacy of Frank H. Knight'sÌýRisk, Uncertainty, and Profit: A Bibliometric Exploration’,ÌýResearch in the History of Economic Thought and MethodologyÌý39C: 19-38.
- Coutinho, M.C. & Suprinyak, C.E. (2020).Ìý‘Steuart, Smith, and the "System of Commerce"’,ÌýResearch in the History of Economic Thought and MethodologyÌý38C: 11-33.
- Oliveira, T.D. & Suprinyak, C.E. (2019).Ìý‘Of Time, Uncertainty, and Policy-Making: The Classical Origins of Lionel Robbins’ Epistemology of Political Economy’,ÌýHistory of Economic IdeasÌý27(3): 95-113.
- Fernández, R.G. & Suprinyak, C.E. (2019).Ìý‘Manufacturing Pluralism in Brazilian Economics’,ÌýJournal of Economic IssuesÌý53(3): 748-773.
- Suprinyak, C.E. & Oliveira, T.D. (2018).Ìý‘Economists, Social Scientists, and the Reconstruction of the World Order in Interwar Britain’,ÌýEuropean Journal of the History of Economic ThoughtÌý25(6): 1282-1310.
- Fernández, R.G. & Suprinyak, C.E. (2018).Ìý‘Creating Academic Economics in Brazil: The Ford Foundation and the Beginnings of ANPEC’,ÌýEconomiAÌý19(3): 314-329.
- Suprinyak, C.E. (2018). ‘Dreams of Order and Freedom: Debating Trade Management in Early-17th Century England’,ÌýJournal of the History of Economic ThoughtÌý40(3): 401-418.
- Oliveira, T.D. & Suprinyak, C.E. (2018).Ìý‘The Nature and Significance of Lionel Robbins’s Methodological Individualism’,ÌýEconomiAÌý19(1): 24-37.
- Suprinyak, C.E. (2016).Ìý‘Trade, Money, and the Grievances of the Commonwealth: Economic Debates in England During the Commercial Crisis of the Early 1620s’,ÌýHistory of Economic IdeasÌý24(1): 27-55.
- Deus, L.G., Paula, J.A., Cerqueira, H.G. & Suprinyak, C.E. (2016).Ìý‘A Theory in the Making: Marx’s Drafts of Capital and the Notebooks on the Crisis of 1866’,ÌýScience & SocietyÌý80(4): 468-480.
- Suprinyak, C.E. (2014).Ìý‘Interpreting a Crisis: Trade and Money Debates in England During the Parliament of 1621’,ÌýHistória Econômica & História de EmpresasÌý17(1): 85-113.
- Paula, J.A., Cerqueira, H.G., Cunha, A.M., Suprinyak, C.E., Deus, L.G. & Albuquerque, E.M. (2012).Ìý‘Notes on a Crisis: The Exzerpthefte and Marx’s Method of Research and Composition’,ÌýThe Review of Radical Political EconomicsÌý45(2): 162-182.
- Suprinyak, C.E. (2011).Ìý‘Merchants and Councillors: Intellectual Divergences in 17th Century British Economic Thought’,ÌýNova EconomiaÌý21(3): 459-482.
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BOOKS
- Cunha, A.M. & Suprinyak, C.E. (eds.) (2020).ÌýPolitical Economy and International Order in Interwar Europe, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Cunha, A.M. & Suprinyak, C.E. (eds.) (2017).ÌýThe Political Economy of Latin American Independence, London: Routledge.
- Suprinyak, C.E. (2008).ÌýTropas em marcha: o mercado de animas de carga no centro-sul do Brasil imperial, São Paulo: Annablume.
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BOOK CHAPTERS
- Suprinyak, C.E. (2023). ‘Grotius Among the English Merchants:ÌýMare LiberumÌýand Anglo-Dutch Rivalry in the Early Seventeenth Century’, in: B. Bourcier and M. Jakonen (eds.),ÌýBritish Modern International Thought in the Making: Politics and Economy from Hobbes to Bentham, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 21-44.
- Suprinyak, C.E. (2020).Ìý‘Pluralism and Political Economy in Interwar Britain: G. D. H. Cole on Economic Planning’, in: A.M. Cunha and C.E. Suprinyak (eds.),ÌýPolitical Economy and International Order in Interwar Europe, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 249-267.
- Cunha, A.M. & Suprinyak, C.E. (2017).Ìý‘Political Economy and Latin American Independence from the 19th to the 20th Century’, in: A.M. CunhaÌýand C.E. Suprinyak (eds.),ÌýThe Political Economy of Latin American Independence, London: Routledge, pp. 7-31.
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BOOK REVIEWS
- A History of Brazilian Economic Thought: From Colonial Times Through the Early 21st Century, edited by Ricardo Bielschowsky, Mauro Boianovsky and MaurÃcio C. Coutinho, Abingdon: Routledge.ÌýEuropean Journal of the History of Economic ThoughtÌý30(4): 680-683, 2023.Ìý
- The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History, by Eric Helleiner, Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press.ÌýEuropean Journal of the History of Economic ThoughtÌý30(1): 144-147, 2023.
- A Contemporary Historiography of Economics, by Till Düppe & E. Roy Weintraub, London: Routledge.ÌýHistory of Political EconomyÌý52(5): 967-69, 2020.
- Cameralism in Practice: State Administration and Economy in Early Modern Europe, by Marten Seppel & Keith Tribe, Woodbridge/Rochester: The Boydell Press.ÌýJournal of the History of Economic ThoughtÌý41(3): 466-68, 2019.
- Lending to the Borrower from Hell: debt, taxes, and default in the age of Philip II, by Mauricio Drelichman & Hans-Joachim Voth, Princeton: Princeton University Press.ÌýJournal of the History of Economic ThoughtÌý38(2): 236-239, 2016.
Affiliations
- Latin American Society for the History of Economic Thought (ALAHPE)
- History of Economics Society (HES)
- European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET)
Research Areas
- History of political economy
- Development economics
- Economic methodology
- EconomicÌýhistory
- International trade theory and policy
- Intellectual history
- Sociology of scientific knowledge
- History of the social sciences
Awards, Fellowships and Grants
2023
- Craufurd Goodwin Best Article in the History of Economics, awarded by the History of Economics Society, for the paper ‘Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Development Economist’
- Â̾ÞÈËÊÓƵ Board of Trustees Award for Outstanding Research and Publications
2019
- ESHET Young Researcher Award, given by the European Society for the History of Economic Thought for outstanding contributions to the history of economics by scholars under 40 years of age
2018
- Visiting Research Fellow, Center for the History of Political Economy, Duke University
2017
- Craufurd Goodwin Best Article in the History of Economics, awarded by the History of Economics Society, for the paper ‘Trade, Money, and the Grievances of the Commonwealth: trade and money debates in the England during the commercial crisis of the 1620’s’
- Fulbright Junior Faculty Member Award, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Chicago
2011
- Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award, Economics, Federal University of Minas Gerais