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Bruce J. Caldwell

Bruce J. Caldwell

Research Professor Emeritus of Economics
Economics
bruce.caldwell@duke.edu
Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708
07G Social Sciences, Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708
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Scholarly Works - Books

The Market and Other Orders

Book · January 1, 2024 In addition to his groundbreaking contributions to pure economic theory, F. A. Hayek also closely examined the ways in which the knowledge of many individual market participants could culminate in an overall order of economic activity. His attempts to come ... Full text Cite

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

Socialism and war: Essays, documents, reviews

Book · January 1, 2020 Throughout the twentieth century socialism and war were intimately connected. The unprecedented upheavals wrought by the two world wars and the Great Depression provided both opportunity and impetus for a variety of socialist experiments. This volume in Th ... Full text Cite

Beyond positivism

Book · July 20, 2015 Since its publication in 1982, Beyond Positivism has become established as one of the definitive statements on economic methodology. The book's rejection of positivism and its advocacy of pluralism were to have a profound influence in the flowering of work ... Full text Cite

The historiography of economics: British and American economic essays, Volume III

Book · October 8, 2013 This is the third and final volume of collected papers of A.W. Bob Coats. Coats began to collect material for this volume in the years following the publication of the second volume in 1993, but sadly died in 2007, before the work was completed. The volume ... Full text Cite