Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
Bruce A. Caldwell
Professor, Department of Economics
Duke University
Bruce Caldwell joined the Economics Department at Duke University in 2008 as a Research Professor and the Director of the newly established Center for the History of Political Economy. He is the author of Beyond Positivism: Economic Methodology in the 20th Century, first published in 1982. For the past two decades his research has focused on the multi-faceted writing of the Nobel prize-winning economist and social theorist Friedrich A. Hayek. Caldwell's award-winning intellectual biography of Hayek, Hayek's Challenge, was published in 2004 by the University of Chicago Press. Since 2002 he has been the General Editor of The Collected Words of F.A. Hayek, a collection of Hayek's writing published jointly by the University of Chicago Press and Routledge. 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.
Scholarship by Bruce A. Caldwell
The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke: Bringing History Back Into Economics
Bruce Caldwell delivers a talk to the John Locke Foundation. Click here to view the talk.
Socialism and War: Essays, Documents, Reviews
Hayek, F. A. Socialism and War: Essays, Documents, Reviews. Edited by Bruce Caldwell.
Hayekian Evolution Reconsidered: A Reply to Hodgson
This is a reply to Geoffrey Hodgson's Comment on an earlier paper by Caldwell (Hodgson on Hayek:a critique).
The Road to Serfdom
The Road to Serfdom, edited by Bruce A. Caldwell, is F. A. Hayek's most well-known book, but its origins were decidedly inauspicious. It began as a memo to the director of the London School of Economics, Sir William Beveridge, written by Hayek in the early 1930s and disputing the then-popular claim that fascism represented the dying gasp of a failed capitalist system.
Caldwell's Road to Serfdom Symposium Paper
Caldwell's paper reviews the history of the socialist calculation debate leading up to the publication of Hayek's The Road to Serfdom, and then uses that information to address various claims made by Rosser and Levy, Peart, and Farrant in their symposium papers.
Bruce Caldwell's Hayek’s Challenge
The first chapter of Bruce Caldwell's Hayek’s Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek is available to read online from University of Chicago Press.