Research Interests for Bruce Caldwell

Bruce Caldwell joined the Economics Department in 2008 as a Research Professor and the Director of the newly established Center for the History of Political Economy. He is the author of Beyond Positivism: Economic Methodology in the 20th Century, first published in 1982. For the past two decades his research has focused on the multi-faceted writings of the Nobel prize-winning economist and social theorist Friedrich A. Hayek. Caldwell’s intellectual biography of Hayek, Hayek's Challenge, was published in 2004 by the University of Chicago Press. Since 2002 he has been the General Editor of The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, a collection of Hayek's writings published jointly by the University of Chicago Press and Routledge. Caldwell has held research fellowships at New York University, Cambridge University, and the London School of Economics. He is a past president of the History of Economics Society, a past Executive Director of the International Network for Economic Method, and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. In 2011-2012 he will serve as the President of the Southern Economic Association.