Bruce Caldwell

Dr. Bruce Caldwell is the Director of the Center for the History of Political Economy as well as a Research Professor of Economics at Duke University. He is also a Distinguished Affiliated Fellow with the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

He is the author of Beyond Positivism: Economic Methodology in the 20th Century (Routledge, 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. Since 2002, he has been the General Editor of The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek.

Most recently, he published Hayek: A Life, 1899-1950 (The University of Chicago Press, 2022), the first of a two-volume family authorized biography of Hayek co-authored with Hansjoerg Klausinger. He is also the author of Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek (The University of Chicago Press, 2003).

Caldwell has held research fellowships at New York University, Cambridge University, and the London School of Economics. He is a former President of the History of Economics Society and of the Southern Economic Association, a former Executive Director of the International Network for Economic Method, and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge.

For further publications by Caldwell, visit his University website.