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Bruce J. Caldwell

Research Professor of Economics
Economics
Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708
07G Social Sciences, Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours By appointment  

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

In the News


Published August 30, 2018
Duke Center Expands Commitment to the History of Economics

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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 Cite

Jhet interviews: Karen Vaughn

Journal Article Journal of the History of Economic Thought · September 6, 2021 Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


Center for the History of Political Economy

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Thomas W. Smith Foundation · 2024 - 2025

The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by John William Pope Foundation · 2008 - 2025

Center for the History of Political Economy

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Thomas W. Smith Foundation · 2022 - 2025

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Education, Training & Certifications


University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · 1979 Ph.D.

External Links


Personal Website