The History of Economics Society is delighted to announce that, from next
July, the Journal of the History of Economic Thought will begin its
transition to a new editorial team. Erwin Dekker, Catherine Herfeld, Harro
Maas, and Alexandre Mendes Cunha will become the journal’s co-editors, and
Christina Laskaridis will take over as the new book review editor.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-history-of-economic-thought




Erwin Dekker is Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George
Mason University. He has recently published Realizing the Values of Art
 (2023), Jan Tinbergen (1903-1994) and the Rise of Economic Expertise (2021)
and the edited volume Governing Markets as Knowledge Commons (2021). From
2014 to 2021 he was assistant professor of cultural economics at the
Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He is currently working on a history of
socio-economic thought in Chicago between 1920 and 1960.



Catherine Herfeld is professor of philosophy and history of economics at
Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. Her research interests cover topics
in history, methodology, and philosophy of economics. Currently, she is
particularly interested in the questions of why and how models are
transferred across different domains and in which way such model transfers
can lead to progress in economics. She also researches the history of
rational choice theories in economics, including their development in, and
diffusion across different institutional contexts.



Harro Maas is a professor in History and Philosophy of Economics at the
Walras-Pareto Center for the History of Economic and Political Thought at
the University of Lausanne. He has published widely on the history of
economics from the Victorian period to the present, with an emphasis on the
transformation of the economist’s methods of thinking and acting with ‘data
’.  He is the editor of the Cambridge Series Historical Perspectives on
Modern Economics and co-editor of Cambridge’s new essay series Elements in
History of Economics.



Alexandre Mendes Cunha is Associate Professor of Economics at the Federal
University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, where he holds a Jean Monnet
Chair funded by the European Commission. He specializes in the history of
economic thought and intellectual history, studying the international
diffusion of economic ideas in different historical contexts, with a focus
on eighteenth-century Enlightenment studies and interwar Europe.



Christina Laskaridis is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics at
The Open University (OU). Her work examines the political economy of
sovereign debt. She is a trustee and secretary of the UK Society for the
History of Economic Thought, a former fellow at Duke’s Center for the
History of Political Economy, and the 2021 recipient of the Joseph Dorfman
Best Dissertation Prize awarded by the History of Economics Society.



The current editors, Jimena Hurtado and Pedro Garcia Duarte, will continue
to work alongside the new team to oversee the production of all JHET issues
until December 2025. The History of Economics Society thanks them for the
exceptional services rendered since 2018 and for guaranteeing a seamless
editorial transition.


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Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak
Secretary, History of Economics Society
Associate Professor, The American University of Paris