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.
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.