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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  

Research Interests


The history of economic thought. 
The Austrian School of Economics.
The work of F. A. Hayek. 

Selected Grants


Center for the History of Political Economy

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

Visiting Scholar - Richard Lane - University Autonoma de Barcelona

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona · 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

The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Pierre F. and Enid Goodrich Foundation · 2021 - 2024

Hoover Institution Fellowship to Professor Bruce Caldwell

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Hoover Institution · 2019 - 2020

Summer Institute on the History of Political Economy

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities · 2015 - 2016

2014 Earhart Support for HOPE Center Fellowships

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Earhart Foundation · 2014 - 2015

The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Pierre F. and Enid Goodrich Foundation · 2009 - 2015

Teaching the History of Political Economy

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities · 2012 - 2013

Teaching the History of Political Economy

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities · 2009 - 2010

External Relationships


  • Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University
  • University of Chicago Press

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