Biography

Ricardo Noronha is an Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History (NOVA FCSH), where he was coordinator of the Research Group on Economy and Society. His research topics include social conflict, intellectual history, and economic transformations during the second half of the 20th century. He is the author of several works, including «A banca ao serviço do povo». Política e Economia durante o PREC (1974-75) [‘A banca ao serviço do povo’ (Banking at the service of the people). Politics and Economics during the PREC (1974-75)] (Lisbon: Imprensa de História Contemporânea, 2018) and 1974: Portugal, uma retrospetiva [1974: Portugal, a retrospective] (Lisbon: Tinta-da-China, 2019). He is currently conducting research on economic planning in Portugal, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology under the Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus (CEEC).

Research fields

• Political economy
• Intelectual history
• Planning
• Neoliberalism

Selected publications

• Noronha, Ricardo. “The Political Economy of the Carnation Revolution (1974–75). A World-Systems Analysis.” Journal of World-Systems Research 29 (2023): 351–376. [link] 🔓
• Noronha, Ricardo. “The Portuguese Road to Neoliberalism (1976–1989).” Contemporary European History 31 (2022): 113–128. [link]
• Noronha, Ricardo. “A Real State of Exception: Class Composition and Social Conflict during Portugal’s Carnation Revolution, 1974–1975.” Critical Historical Studies 6 (2019): 93–123. [link]
• Noronha, Ricardo. “A Banca ao Serviço do Povo”: Política e Economia durante o PREC (1974-75). Lisbon: Imprensa de História Contemporânea, 2018. [link] 🔓

Main projects

• Coordinator of the project ‘PETROSINES — Peripheral Petromodernity. A Global Microhistory of the Sines Area Project (1971-1999)‘ — Hosted by the IHC and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (2023.17817.ICDT). 2025-
• Researcher in the project ‘GRASSROOTS — Memory and Revolution. An oral history archive of grassroots politics in the 1974-75 revolutionary process’ — Coordinated by Luís Trindade (IHC) and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (2023.10625.25ABR). 2024-