Bruce Caldwell

Professor of Economics
Duke University

Bruce Caldwell is a Research Professor of Economics and the Director of the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University. 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 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. Since 2002 he has been the General Editor of The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, a collection of Hayek's writings published jointly by the University of Chicago Press and Routledge. Caldwell has 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. In 2011 he will begin serving as President of the Southern Economic Association.

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Economists argue over how the economy works or what is the best fiscal policy to recover from the current crisis. Sheila Dow looks behind the curtain of these debates; she seeks to find out why particular theories are being advanced, and how economists evaluate the merit of an argument in scientific debate.

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The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Day 1 – Dinner: 1930 and the Challenge of the Depression for Economic Thinking: Friedrich Hayek versus John Maynard Keynes.

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The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Day 1 - Dinner Q&A Session: 1930 and the Challenge of the Depression for Economic Thinking: Friedrich Hayek versus John Maynard Keynes

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Bruce Caldwell of Duke University was awarded a grant by the Institute for New Economic Thinking to expand the programs offered through the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University.

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Presented at the INET Conference @ King’s College, April 8-11, 2010