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. Prior to holding this position, Caldwell was the Joe Rosenthal Excellence Professor of Economics at the

University of North Carolina at Greensboro The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG or UNC Greensboro) is a public research university in Greensboro, North Carolina. It is part of the University of North Carolina system. UNCG, like all members of the UNC system, is a stand- ...

. In 1979, he received his Ph.D. in Economics from the

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and did post-doctoral work at

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, where he was influenced by both

Ludwig Lachmann Ludwig Maurits Lachmann (; ; 1 February 1906 – 17 December 1990) was a German economist who was a theorist and important contributor to the Austrian School of Economics. Lachmann himself, Israel Kirzner, and Murray Rothbard were the three primar ...

and

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. He is the General Editor of the University of Chicago's ''The Collected Works of

F.A. Hayek Friedrich August von Hayek ( , ; 8 May 189923 March 1992), often referred to by his initials F. A. Hayek, was an Austrian–British economist, Jurisprudence, legal theorist and philosopher who is best known for his defense of classical lib ...

''. 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''. 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. Formerly at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Caldwell has also held research fellowships at New York University,

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, and the

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. 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

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

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