Bruce Caldwell (economist)

Last updated
Bruce J. Caldwell
Born1952
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
Institution Duke University
Field Economic methodology
School or
tradition
Austrian School of Economics
Alma mater College of William & Mary (BA)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (PhD)
New York University
Influences Friedrich 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]

Related Research Articles

The Austrian School is a heterodox school of economic thought that advocates strict adherence to methodological individualism, the concept that social phenomena result exclusively from the motivations and actions of individuals. Austrian school theorists hold that economic theory should be exclusively derived from basic principles of human action.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carl Menger</span> Founder of the Austrian School of economics (1840–1921)

Carl Menger von Wolfensgrün was an Austrian economist and the founder of the Austrian School of economics. Menger contributed to the development of the theories of marginalism and marginal utility, which rejected cost-of-production theory of value, such as developed by the classical economists such as Adam Smith and David Ricardo. As a departure from such, he would go on to call his resultant perspective, the subjective theory of value.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Friedrich Hayek</span> Austrian–British economist, philosopher, and Nobel Laureate (1899–1992)

Friedrich August von Hayek, often referred to by his initials F. A. Hayek, was an Austrian-British economist and political philosopher who made contributions to economics, political philosophy, psychology, intellectual history, and other fields. Hayek shared the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Gunnar Myrdal for work on money and economic fluctuations, and the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena. His account of how prices communicate information is widely regarded as an important contribution to economics that led to him receiving the prize.

Frank Hyneman Knight was an American economist who spent most of his career at the University of Chicago, where he became one of the founders of the Chicago School.

The Chicago school of economics is a neoclassical school of economic thought associated with the work of the faculty at the University of Chicago, some of whom have constructed and popularized its principles. Milton Friedman and George Stigler are considered the leading scholars of the Chicago school.

<i>The Road to Serfdom</i> Book by Friedrich von Hayek

The Road to Serfdom is a book written between 1940 and 1943 by Austrian-British economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek. Since its publication in 1944, The Road to Serfdom has been popular among liberal and conservative thinkers, and remains referenced in modern discourse. It has been translated into more than 20 languages and sold over two million copies. The book was first published in Britain by Routledge in March 1944, during World War II, and was quite popular, leading Hayek to call it "that unobtainable book", also due in part to wartime paper rationing. It was published in the United States by the University of Chicago Press in September 1944 and achieved great popularity. At the arrangement of editor Max Eastman, the American magazine Reader's Digest published an abridged version in April 1945, enabling The Road to Serfdom to reach a wider non-academic audience.

Aaron Director was a Russian-born American economist and academic who played a central role in the development of law and economics and the Chicago school of economics. Director was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, and together with his brother-in-law, Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, Director influenced some of the next generation of jurists, including Robert Bork, Richard Posner, Antonin Scalia and Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

Ralph Raico was an American libertarian historian of European liberalism and a professor of history at Buffalo State College.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jesús Huerta de Soto</span> Spanish economist of the Austrian School (born 1956)

Jesús Huerta de Soto Ballester is a Spanish economist of the Austrian School. He is a professor in the Department of Applied Economics at King Juan Carlos University of Madrid, Spain and a Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ludwig von Mises</span> Austrian-American economist (1881–1973)

Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises was an Austrian-American Austrian School economist, historian, logician, and sociologist. Mises wrote and lectured extensively on the societal contributions of classical liberalism and the power of consumers. He is best known for his work on praxeology studies comparing communism and capitalism.

This is the chronological list of books by the Austrian school economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek. The dates in brackets are the original year of publication of the book.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Edwin Cannan</span> British economist and economic historian

Edwin Cannan was a British economist and historian of economic thought. He taught at the London School of Economics from 1895 to 1926.

<i>The Constitution of Liberty</i> 1960 book by Friedrich von Hayek

The Constitution of Liberty is a book written by Friedrich Hayek, first published in 1960 by the University of Chicago Press. Many scholars have considered The Constitution of Liberty as the most important work by Hayek.

<i>EconTalk</i> Podcast

EconTalk is a weekly economics podcast hosted by Russ Roberts. Roberts, formerly an economics professor at George Mason University, is a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. On the podcast, Roberts typically interviews a single guest—often professional economists—on topics in economics. The podcast is hosted by the Library of Economics and Liberty, an online library sponsored by Liberty Fund. On EconTalk Roberts has interviewed more than a dozen Nobel Prize laureates including Nobel Prize in Economics recipients Ronald Coase, Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, and Joseph Stiglitz as well as Nobel Prize in Physics recipient Robert Laughlin.

"The Use of Knowledge in Society" is a scholarly article written by economist Friedrich Hayek, first published in the September 1945 issue of The American Economic Review.

<i>The Fatal Conceit</i> 1988 book by Friedrich Hayek

The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism is a book written by the economist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek and edited by the philosopher William Warren Bartley. The book was first published in 1988 by the University of Chicago Press. Questions have been raised about how far Bartley was the editor and how far the author.

<i>Internet and Technology Law Desk Reference</i>

Internet and Technology Law Desk Reference is a non-fiction book about information technology law, written by Michael Dennis Scott. The book uses wording from legal cases to define information technology jargon, and gives citations to individual lawsuits. Scott received his B.S. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated with a J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has taught as a law professor at Southwestern Law School. The book was published by Aspen Law and Business in 1999. Multiple subsequent editions were published under the imprint Aspen Publishers. Internet and Technology Law Desk Reference was recommended by the Cyberlaw Research Resources Guide at the James E. Rogers College of Law, and has been used as a reference in law journals including University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law, and Berkeley Technology Law Journal.

Ronald Hamowy was a Canadian academic, known primarily for his contributions to political and social academic fields. At the time of his death, he was professor emeritus of intellectual history at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Hamowy was closely associated with the political ideology of libertarianism and his writings and scholarship place particular emphasis on individual liberty and the limits of state action in a free society. He is associated with a number of prominent American libertarian organizations.

Alan Oliver (Lanny) Ebenstein is an American political scientist, educator and author, known from his biographical works on Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Constance Hill Marteena</span> American librarian and bibliographer

Constance Hill Marteena was an American librarian and author, known for her bibliographies about Black women.

References

  1. "CV of Bruce Caldwell" (PDF). con.duke.edu.
  2. http://www.uncg.edu/bae/people/caldwell/hayek_project.pdf%5B%5D
  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.