Bruce J. Caldwell, Research Professor

Professor Caldwell's research focuses on the history of economic thought, with a specific interest in the life and works of F. A. Hayek. He is the general editor of "The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek," which is published by the University of Chicago Press and Routledge. Within this series, he has recently edited "The Market and Other Orders" (2015). He is currently working on a family-authorized biography of Hayek. For this work he has received the Ludwig Lachmann Fellowship from the London School of Economics (2012-2015) and a grant from the Thomas Smith Foundation (2016-2018). He is the Director of the Center for the History of Political Economy, a center whose purpose is to promote research in, and the teaching of, the history of economic thought.  The Center has received grants from a variety of sources, among them the National Endowment for the Humanities (2010, 2013, 2016), the John W. Pope Foundation (2008-present), the Institute for New Economic Thinking (2011-2013), and the Thomas W. Smith Foundation (2011-17).

Contact Info:

Office Location:	07G Social Sciences, Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	(919) 660-6896
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://econ.duke.edu/~bjc18

Teaching (Fall 2017):

• ECON 909.06, ECON THOUGHT/HOPE WORKSHOP Synopsis

  Social Sciences 327, F 03:05 PM-05:35 PM

Education:

Ph.D.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1979

Specialties:

History of Economics

Research Interests: History of economic thought, economic methodology, the writings of F.A. Hayek

Professor Caldwell's research focuses on the history of economic thought, with a specific interest in the life and works of F. A. Hayek. He is the general editor of "The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek," which is published by the University of Chicago Press and Routledge. Within this series, he has recently edited "Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason" (2013), and is currently working on the "The Market and Other Orders" (forthcoming). He has received grants for the Center for the History of Political Economy from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2012), the Atlas Foundation (2012), and the Thomas W. Smith Foundation (2013). He personally received the Ludwig Lachmann Fellowship from the London School of Economics, which came into effect in September 2012 and will continue until September 2015.

Curriculum Vitae  Bio

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Caldwell, B, Hayek's Nobel, Advances in Austrian Economics, vol. 21 (January, 2016), pp. 1-19 [doi]  [abs]
2. Caldwell, B; Montes, L, Friedrich Hayek and his visits to Chile, The Review of Austrian Economics, vol. 28 no. 3 (September, 2015), pp. 261-309, ISSN 0889-3047 [doi]
3. Caldwell, B, F. A. Hayek and the Economic Calculus, The Center for the History of Political Economy (CHOPE) Working Paper no. 2015 (August, 2015)
4. Caldwell, B, George Soros: Hayekian?, Journal of Economic Methodology, vol. 20 no. 4 (December, 2013), pp. 350-356, ISSN 1350-178X [doi]
5. Caldwell, B, Of Positivism and the History of Economic Thought, Southern economic journal, vol. 79 no. 4 (April, 2013), pp. 753-767, ISSN 0038-4038 [doi]