Elected Officers of the Executive Committee

Maria Pia Paganelli is a Professor of Economics at Trinity University. She works on Adam Smith, David Hume, and 18th century monetary theories. She wrote The Routledge Guidebook to Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (Routledge 2020), and co-edited the Oxford Handbook on Adam Smith (OUP 2013) and Adam Smith and Rousseau (EUP 2018).

 
 
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Maria Cristina Marcuzzo is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Rome, “La Sapienza”, Italy and Fellow and Foreign Secretary of the Italian Academy of Lincei. Former President of the European Society for the History of Economic and the Italian Society for the History of Political Economy and presently she is Distinguished Fellow and Vice-President of the History of Economics Society (USA). She has been Visiting Professor in several universities in Europe, Japan, Mexico and United States She has worked on classical monetary theory, the Cambridge School of Economics, and Keynesian economics. She has published more than 100 articles in journals and books, plus authoring or editing 25 books. Collections of her essays have been published by Routledge (Fighting market failure, 2012) and by Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Essays in Keynesian Persuasion, 2019) and Palgrave Macmillan (Economics Theories, Protagonists and Facts, 2024 forthcoming).

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Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak is Associate Professor of Economics at The American University of Paris. His research explores the intersections between economics and politics in different historical contexts: early modern arguments about trade and monetary policy, the reconstruction of international order in interwar Europe, and the shaping of the economics profession in Latin America during the Cold War. 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, 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. He is a founding member of the Latin American Society for the History of Economic Thought (ALAHPE) and currently co-editor of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology.

Website: https://www.aup.edu/profile/csuprinyak

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John Berdell is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Driehaus College of Business, DePaul University, Chicago

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Ross Emmett is Professor of Political Economy and Director of the Center for the Study of Economic Liberty, School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership, Arizona State University. A historian of economics and economic thought, he is best known for his work on Frank H. Knight and the Chicago School.

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Jimena Hurtado is Co-Editor of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought. She is Associate Professor at the Economics Department of the University of los Andes. She has a B.A. in Political Science and another in Economics and an M.A. in Economics from the same University. She obtained an M.Sc. in Economic Epistemology at the University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University Paris X Nanterre. She is an Associate Researcher at the French research center Pôle d’Histoire de l’Analyse et des Représentations Economiques, University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne,  member of the Grupo de Investigación en Pensamiento y Teoría Económica, National University of Colombia and University of los Andes, and a founding member of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Historia del Pensamiento Económico (ALAHPE). Her research field is the history of economic thought, in particular the first half of the XVIIIth century, especially the works of Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and economic philosophy. Now she is working in the history of Colombian economic thought and economic policy during the XIXth century and the first half of the XXth century. In these fields she has published several articles in national and international refereed journals and has contributed with chapters in national and international books.

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Pedro Duarte is Co-Editor of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought. He is Professor of Economics at the INSPER Institute of Education and Research, Brazil, and researches the technical transformations of economics in the 20th century, particularly after World War II. Duarte looks more closely the history of macroeconomics in the postwar period and how macroeconomists built models to observe and intervene in the world. He published several articles on this topic in leading journals on the history of economics, co-edited a book on the history of microfoundations, and has been a guest editor, with Marcel Boumans, of a symposium (“The History of Macroeconometric Modeling”) published in 2019 in the journal HOPE (History of Political Economy). With Yann Giraud, he published the 2020 HOPE volume on “Economics and Engineering: Institutions, Practices, and Cultures”. He obtained a B.A. in economics at the University of São Paulo (Brazil), a Master’s in economics at Pontifical Catholic University at Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and a PhD in economics at Duke University (USA). He received the Costantino Bresciani Turroni-AISPE Award in 2006 for the best paper presented by a young researcher at the meeting of the Italian Society for the History of Economic Thought (AISPE), and the ESHET Young Researcher Award in 2015, 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. An occasional twitter (and even more occasional blogger), Duarte is the co-organizer of the History of Recent Economics Conference (HISRECO).
 

Website: https://www.insper.edu.br/pesquisa-e-conhecimento/docentes-pesquisadores/pedro-garcia-duarte/

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Humberto Barreto is the Q. G. Noblitt Professor of Economics and Management at DePauw University. Professor Barreto’s scholarship focuses on improving the teaching and learning of economics (for more, see www.depauw.edu/learn/econexcel). He is the moderator of an open
email discussion list with over a thousand subscribers around the world devoted to the history of economic thought called SHOE (click to see the archives and join).

Website: http://academic.depauw.edu/~hbarreto/index.html

Valentina Erasmo is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Torino, Italy. She is interested in history of economic thought and methodology, especially on philosophical-economic issues: in particular, she is focused on the capability approach (origins and development of the CA and further extensions of the capabilities conception of the individual in economics), the analysis of economics’ interfield connections and the history of American economic thought (Progressive Era). She is also a research fellow at the Economy of Francesco (EoF) Academy. In 2021, she was awarded with the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) Best Early Career Research Paper for the best paper presented by a young researcher at the AHE 2021 International Conference.

She is Twittermaster of Societies for the History of Economics (SHoET), a joint initiative of the History of Economics Society (HES) and the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET), as well as Twittermaster for the Italian Association for the History of Economic Thought (AISPE)

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Elected members of the Executive Committee (end of term)

Irwin(Bud) Collier is the scribe/curator of the blog Economics in the Rear-view Mirror (irwincollier.com) that shares archival artifacts bearing on the education of economists in the United States, 1870-1970. He is currently professor of economics at Bard College Berlin, having retired from the Freie Universität Berlin in 2018. As a member of the Executive Committee of HES, he plans to promote a vigorous, continued expansion of cooperative sharing of research/teaching materials and ideas across our international community of scholars.

Sandra J. Peart is dean of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies and E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor in Leadership Studies. She is past president of the International Adam Smith Society and the History of Economics Society and has written or edited eleven books, including Towards an Economics of Natural Equals: A Documentary History of the Early Virginia School (CUP 2020), co-authored with David M. Levy. Peart obtained her doctorate in economics from the University of Toronto and began her career at the College of William and Mary. She is an elected member of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, and the Reform Club.

Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay is Senior Lecturer in Economics at Goldsmiths, University of London. He obtained a B.Sc. in Mathematics and an M.Sc. in Economics at Université de Montréal, after which he completed a Master degree in Economic Methodology at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He received a PhD in History of Economic Thought from the Université de Lausanne and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2016. Since then, he has been teaching economics at Goldsmiths. His research, published in leading journals in the history of economic thought, focuses on the history and philosophical foundation of public finance and public economics. He has also published genealogical papers on key economic concepts such as homo oeconomicus, consumers’ sovereignty, and commons.  He was awarded the Young Researcher Award (2020) and the Best article award (2023, jointly with Michele Bee) by the European Society for the History of Economic Thought. Maxime is a trustee of The History of Economic Thought Society (UK). He is also Book Review Editor of the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought.