Bruce Caldwell, Research Professor

Office Location:	Rm 07G Social Sciences
Office Phone:	(919) 660-6896
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://econ.duke.edu/~bjc18

Teaching (Fall 2009):

• ECON 171S.01, HAYEK AND AUSTRIAN TRADITION

  Social Sciences 107, MW 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

• ECON 380.06, ECONOMIC THOUGHT- HOPE SEM

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

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

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. Formerly at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Caldwell has also 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.