The Society was founded in 1990 by Charalambos D. Aliprantis, Edward C. Prescott, and Nicholas C. Yannelis.

• Edward C. Prescott, 1990-1994
• Charalambos D. Aliprantis, 1995-1997
• Nicholas C. Yannelis, 1998-2008
• Charles R. Plott, 2009-2010
• David K. Levine, 2011-2012
• Aloisio Araujo, 2013-2014
• Bernard Cornet, 2015-2016
• Robert Townsend, 2017
• Eric Maskin, 2018
• Tim Kehoe, 2019