Overview
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).
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Research Professor of Economics
·
2008 - Present
Economics,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Methodology and history of economics: Reflections with and without rules
Book · August 18, 2022 This edited volume provides an in-depth exploration into the influential work of Wade Hands, examining the changing relationship between methodology and the history of economics in connection with contemporary developments in economics. The papers in this ... Full text CiteWade hands as an historian and philosopher of economics
Chapter · August 18, 2022 Full text CiteJhet interviews: Karen Vaughn
Journal Article Journal of the History of Economic Thought · September 6, 2021 Full text CiteRecent Grants
Center for the History of Political Economy
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Thomas W. Smith Foundation · 2024 - 2025The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by John William Pope Foundation · 2008 - 2025Center for the History of Political Economy
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Thomas W. Smith Foundation · 2022 - 2025View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ·
1979
Ph.D.