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Bruce Caldwell (economist)

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Bruce J. Caldwell
Born1952
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
FieldEconomic methodology
InstitutionDuke University
School or
tradition		Austrian School of Economics
Alma materCollege of William & Mary (BA)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (PhD)
New York University
InfluencesFriedrich Hayek, Ludwig Lachmann, Israel Kirzner

Bruce J. Caldwell (born 1952) is an American historian of economics, Research Professor of Economics at Duke University, and Director of the Center for the History of Political Economy.[1] Prior to holding this position, Caldwell was the Joe Rosenthal Excellence Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 1979, he received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and did post-doctoral work at New York University, where he was influenced by both Ludwig Lachmann and Israel Kirzner.

He is the General Editor of the University of Chicago's The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek.[2] He is the third editor of the series, after W.W. Bartley III and Stephen Kresge. In particular, Caldwell edited The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents –The Definitive Edition.[3]

He is the author of Beyond Positivism: Economic Methodology in the 20th Century, first published in 1982.[4] For the past two decades his research has focused on the multi-faceted writings of the Nobel Prize-winning economist and social theorist Friedrich A. Hayek. Caldwell's intellectual biography of Hayek, Hayek's Challenge, was published in 2004 by the University of Chicago Press. Formerly at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Caldwell has also held research fellowships at New York University, Cambridge University, and the London School of Economics. He is a past president of the History of Economics Society, a past Executive Director of the International Network for Economic Method, and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge.[citation needed]

Caldwell's book Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2004 (ISBN 9780226091914),[5] and reviewed by a number of journals.[6][7][8] He has also published a number of scholarly articles on this and related subjects.[9]

References

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  1. ^ "CV of Bruce Caldwell" (PDF). con.duke.edu.
  2. ^ http://www.uncg.edu/bae/people/caldwell/hayek_project.pdf[permanent dead link‍]
  3. ^ Hayek, F.A. (2007). Caldwell, Bruce (ed.). The Road to Serfdom; Text and Documents; The Definitive Edition. London and Chicago, IL: Routledge and The University of Chicago Press – via Internet Archive.
  4. ^ Caldwell, Bruce J. (1982). Beyond Positivism: Economic Methodology in the 20th Century. London: George Allen & Unwin (Publishers) Ltd. – via Internet Archive.
  5. ^ Caldwell, Bruce (March 10, 2004). Hayek's challenge: an intellectual biography of F.A. Hayek. University of Chicago Press. OCLC 51937044 – via Open WorldCat.
  6. ^ [WorldCat.org]. OCLC 483170644 – via www.worldcat.org.
  7. ^ [WorldCat.org]. OCLC 609067463 – via www.worldcat.org.
  8. ^ Steorts, Jason, Caldwell, Bruce (March 10, 2004). "Books, Arts & Manners – The Austrian Teacher – Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek". National Review. 56 (3): 55. OCLC 96156850 – via Open WorldCat.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ "Results for 'Bruce Caldwell' > 'Non-Fiction' > 'Caldwell Bruce' > 'Article' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org.
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