About the Editors

Harro Maas is Professor Emeritus in History and Philosophy of Economics at the Centre Walras-Pareto for the History of Economics and Political Thought at the University of Lausanne. He publishes widely on the history of social quantification, visualization of the economy, and on the history of economic methods. He received the Spengler Prize for the best monograph in the history of economics from the History of Economics Society in 2006 and, with Andrej Svorencik, the best book prize of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought in 2018. He edited various special issues, on observational practices of economists (History of Political Economy, 2012, with Mary S. Morgan), on diagrammatic reasoning in science (East Asian Science, Technology and Society, 2019, with Hsiang-Ke Chao) and on the epistemic virtues of travel (History of Political Economy, 2021, with the late Mauro Boianovsky). The Swiss Science Foundation (SNSF) funded his most recent project, Moral Accounting Matters, that aims to historicize theories of the neoclassical agent by looking at accounting practices on the level of the individual and the family over the period from 1800-1940.

Pedro Garcia Duarte is Associate Professor at the INSPER Institute of Education and Research, Brazil, and is the Vice-President of the History of Economics Society (2025-2027). His research focuses on the technical transformations of economics in the twentieth century, particularly after World War II, with a special interest in the history of macroeconomics. He published on these topics in leading journals on the history of economics as well as in edited volumes. He coedited the book Microfoundations Reconsidered: The Relationship of Micro and Macroeconomics in Historical Perspective (2012), and has been a guest editor, with Marcel Boumans, of the symposium “The History of Macroeconometric Modeling,” published in 2019 in History of Political Economy. He received the Costantino Bresciani Turroni-AISPE Prize in 2006 from the Italian Society for the History of Economic Thought, and the Young Researcher Award in 2015 from European Society for the History of Economic Thought. He was the co-editor of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought (from 2018 to 2025) and is co-organizer of the History of Recent Economics Conference (HISRECO).

Cléo Chassonnery Zaigouche is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is an historian of economic thought, focusing on the history of discrimination and its real-world consequences. Her main areas of research are the history of labour economics with a focus on inequalities, and the relation between economics, expertise, and policy. She co-edited the annual supplement of History of Political Economy on ‘Women and Economics: New Historical Perspectives’ in 2022. She received the Young Scholar Award in recognition for outstanding publications in the history of economics from the European Society for the History of Economic Thought in 2021.

Catherine Herfeld is a Professor of Philosophy and History of Economics at the Institute of Philosophy, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. Besides multiple editorial functions, she is an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology a co-editor in chief of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought. Her research interests fall into the fields of philosophy of economics, economic methodology, history of economics, and Integrated History and Philosophy of Science. In her research, she brings an Integrated HPS approach to address questions about economics as a science, such as the role of model transfer for progress in economics, the nature of rational choice explanations, the history of rational choice theories, the nature of thought experiments in economics, and the status of first principles in economics. She is the Principal Investigator of an ERC Starting Grant (MODEL TRANSFER, until 2029), has been awarded the Karl Heinz Hoffmann prize for outstanding interdisciplinary research in the social sciences and humanities from the Bavarian Academy of Science, and received the Joseph Dorfman Best Dissertation Prize from the History of Economics Society.

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