Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak

Associate Professor, Interim Chair, Economics and Management

  • Department: Economics and Management

Professor Suprinyak joined 黑料网 in 2021 after working for ten years at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Brazil. He is a research associate at Triangle 鈥 Action, discours, pens茅e 茅conomique et politique (UMR 5206), and has previously held visiting appointments at the University of Chicago and Duke University. He currently serves as President of the Latin American Society for the History of Economic Thought (ALAHPE) and Secretary of the History of Economics Society (HES), and is also co-editor of Review of the History of Economic Thought and Methodology (RHETM).

Suprinyak specializes in the history of political economy, with training in economic methodology, economic history, international trade theory, and development economics. His research explores the intersections between economics and politics across different historical contexts, including early modern debates on trade policy, the reconstruction of the world order in interwar Europe, and the shaping of the economics profession in Latin America during the Cold War.

In addition to numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals, Suprinyak is co-editor of The Political Economy of Latin American Independence (Routledge, 2017) and Political Economy and International Order in Interwar Europe (Palgrave, 2020). His scholarship has received multiple awards. In 2017 and again in 2023, he was awarded the Craufurd Goodwin Best Article in the History of Economics Prize by the History of Economics Society. He also received the 2019 ESHET Young Researcher Award, presented by the European Society for the History of Economic Thought for outstanding contributions to the history of economics by scholars under 40.



Education/Degrees

  • Habilitation 脿 Diriger des Recherches en Sciences 脡conomiques, Universit茅 Bourgogne - Franche-Comt茅 (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 Paran谩 (2004)

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • Suprinyak, C.E. (2025). 鈥楢 鈥淪udden Outcry鈥 for Free Trade: Autonomy, Empire and Political Economy in the Irish Free Trade Campaign, 1779-1785鈥, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 32(4): 530-552.
  • Suprinyak, C.E. & Carvalho, A.R. (2025). 鈥楤ringing Latin America into the Mainstream: The 1963 Rio de Janeiro Conference on Inflation and Growth鈥, History of Political Economy 57(4): 677-710.
  • Suprinyak, C.E. & Fern谩ndez, R.G. (2023). 鈥楲a Fundaci贸n Ford y la formaci贸n de una comunidad acad茅mica pluralista de economistas en Brasil, 1961-1979鈥, Estudios Sociol贸gicos 41(n煤mero especial): 101-130.
  • Suprinyak, C.E. & Fern谩ndez, R.G. (2022). 鈥楩unding Policy Research under "Distasteful Regimes": The Ford Foundation and the Social Sciences in Brazil, 1964-71鈥, Journal of Latin American Studies 54(3): 405-430.
  • Carvalho, A.R. & Suprinyak, C.E. (2022). 鈥楢n Emigrant Economist in the Tropics: Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen on Brazilian Inflation and Development鈥, Cambridge Journal of Economics 46(3): 561-579.
  • Suprinyak, C.E. (2022). 鈥楴icholas Georgescu-Roegen, Development Economist鈥, Journal of the History of Economic Thought 44(2): 205-225.
  • Suprinyak, C.E. & Fern谩ndez, R.G. (2021). 鈥楾he "Vanderbilt Boys" and the Modernization of Brazilian Economics鈥, History of Political Economy 53(5): 893-924.
  • Suprinyak, C.E. & Oliveira, T.D. (2021). 鈥楾he Unsettled Legacy of Frank H. Knight's Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit: A Bibliometric Exploration鈥, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 39C: 19-38.
  • Coutinho, M.C. & Suprinyak, C.E. (2020). 鈥楽teuart, Smith, and the "System of Commerce"鈥, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 38C: 11-33.
  • Oliveira, T.D. & Suprinyak, C.E. (2019). 鈥極f Time, Uncertainty, and Policy-Making: The Classical Origins of Lionel Robbins鈥 Epistemology of Political Economy鈥, History of Economic Ideas 27(3): 95-113.
  • Fern谩ndez, R.G. & Suprinyak, C.E. (2019). 鈥楳anufacturing Pluralism in Brazilian Economics鈥, Journal of Economic Issues 53(3): 748-773.
  • Suprinyak, C.E. & Oliveira, T.D. (2018). 鈥楨conomists, Social Scientists, and the Reconstruction of the World Order in Interwar Britain鈥, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 25(6): 1282-1310.
  • Fern谩ndez, R.G. & Suprinyak, C.E. (2018). 鈥楥reating Academic Economics in Brazil: The Ford Foundation and the Beginnings of ANPEC鈥, EconomiA 19(3): 314-329.
  • Suprinyak, C.E. (2018). 鈥楧reams of Order and Freedom: Debating Trade Management in Early-17th Century England鈥, Journal of the History of Economic Thought 40(3): 401-418.
  • Oliveira, T.D. & Suprinyak, C.E. (2018). 鈥楾he Nature and Significance of Lionel Robbins鈥檚 Methodological Individualism鈥, EconomiA 19(1): 24-37.
  • Suprinyak, C.E. (2016). 鈥楾rade, Money, and the Grievances of the Commonwealth: Economic Debates in England During the Commercial Crisis of the Early 1620s鈥, History of Economic Ideas 24(1): 27-55.
  • Deus, L.G., Paula, J.A., Cerqueira, H.G. & Suprinyak, C.E. (2016). 鈥楢 Theory in the Making: Marx鈥檚 Drafts of Capital and the Notebooks on the Crisis of 1866鈥, Science & Society 80(4): 468-480.
  • Suprinyak, C.E. (2014). 鈥業nterpreting a Crisis: Trade and Money Debates in England During the Parliament of 1621鈥, Hist贸ria Econ么mica & Hist贸ria de Empresas 17(1): 85-113.
  • Paula, J.A., Cerqueira, H.G., Cunha, A.M., Suprinyak, C.E., Deus, L.G. & Albuquerque, E.M. (2012). 鈥楴otes on a Crisis: The Exzerpthefte and Marx鈥檚 Method of Research and Composition鈥, The Review of Radical Political Economics 45(2): 162-182.
  • Suprinyak, C.E. (2011). 鈥楳erchants and Councillors: Intellectual Divergences in 17th Century British Economic Thought鈥, Nova Economia 21(3): 459-482.

 

BOOKS

  • Cunha, A.M. & Suprinyak, C.E. (eds.) (2020). Political Economy and International Order in Interwar Europe, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Cunha, A.M. & Suprinyak, C.E. (eds.) (2017). The Political Economy of Latin American Independence, London: Routledge.
  • Suprinyak, C.E. (2008). Tropas em marcha: o mercado de animas de carga no centro-sul do Brasil imperial, S茫o Paulo: Annablume.

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Suprinyak, C.E. (2024). 鈥楪rotius Among the English Merchants: Mare Liberum and Anglo-Dutch Rivalry in the Early Seventeenth Century鈥, in: B. Bourcier and M. Jakonen (eds.), British Modern International Thought in the Making: Politics and Economy from Hobbes to Bentham, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 21-44.
  • Suprinyak, C.E. (2020). 鈥楶luralism and Political Economy in Interwar Britain: G. D. H. Cole on Economic Planning鈥, in: A.M. Cunha and C.E. Suprinyak (eds.), Political Economy and International Order in Interwar Europe, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 249-267.
  • Cunha, A.M. & Suprinyak, C.E. (2017). 鈥楶olitical Economy and Latin American Independence from the 19th to the 20th Century鈥, in: A.M. Cunha and C.E. Suprinyak (eds.), The Political Economy of Latin American Independence, London: Routledge, pp. 7-31.

 

BOOK REVIEWS

  • A History of Brazilian Economic Thought: From Colonial Times Through the Early 21st Century, edited by Ricardo Bielschowsky, Mauro Boianovsky and Maur铆cio C. Coutinho, Abingdon: Routledge. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 30(4): 680-683, 2023. 
  • The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History, by Eric Helleiner, Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 30(1): 144-147, 2023.
  • A Contemporary Historiography of Economics, by Till D眉ppe & E. Roy Weintraub, London: Routledge. History of Political Economy 52(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. Journal of the History of Economic Thought 41(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. Journal of the History of Economic Thought 38(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
  • Economic history
  • International trade theory and policy
  • Intellectual history
  • Sociology of scientific knowledge
  • History of the social sciences

Curriculum Vitae