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 the Nobel Laureate economist and social theorist F. A. Hayek. He is the author of Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek (2004) and since 2002 has served as the general editor of the book series The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek. In 2022 he published Mont Pelerin 1947: Transcripts of the Founding Meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society as well as Hayek: A Life, 1899-1950, the first of a two-volume biography that he is writing with Hansjoerg Klausinger. In 2019-2020 he was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has also held research fellowships at NYU, the LSE, and Cambridge University. At Duke 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), the Thomas W. Smith Foundation (2011-present), and the Charles Koch Foundation (2018-present).

Contact Info:

Office Location:	07G Social Sciences, Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	+1 919 660 6896
Email Address:
Web Page:	https://sites.duke.edu/brucecaldwell/

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• ECON 908.01, ECONOMIC HISTORY Synopsis

  Social Sciences 113, F 03:20 PM-05:50 PM

• ECON 908.01, ECONOMIC HISTORY Synopsis

  Social Sciences 113, F 03:20 PM-05:00 PM

Office Hours:

By appointment

Education:

Ph.D.

University of North Carolina, 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; Davis, JB; Mäki, U; Sent, EM, Methodology and history of economics: Reflections with and without rules (August, 2022), pp. 1-250, ISBN 9781032209463 [doi]  [abs]
2. Caldwell, B; Davis, JB; Mäki, U; Sent, EM, Wade hands as an historian and philosopher of economics, in Methodology and History of Economics: Reflections With and Without Rules (August, 2022), pp. 1-14, ISBN 9781032209463 [doi]
3. Caldwell, B, The Road to Serfdom after 75 Years, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 58 no. 3 (September, 2020), pp. 720-748 [doi]  [abs]
4. Caldwell, B, Socialism and war: Essays, documents, reviews (January, 2020), pp. 1-270, ISBN 9780415035224 [doi]  [abs]
5. Caldwell, B, Popper and hayek: Who influenced whom?, in Karl Popper: A Centenary Assessment, vol. 1 (June, 2019), pp. 111-124, ISBN 9780815390060