Education
In 1979, he received his Doctor of Philosophy 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.
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Bruce Caldwell
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Prior to holding this position, Caldwell was the Joe Rosenthal Excellence Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the current General Editor of the University of Chicago"s The Collected Works of Field Artillery Hayek. He is the third editor of the series, after West.W. Bartley III and Stephen Kresge.
In particular, Caldwell edited The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents –The Definitive Edition.
Foreign 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 has also published a number of scholarly articles on this and related subjects.
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Caldwell"s book Hayek"s Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of Field Artillery Hayek, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2004 (), and reviewed by a number of journals.
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He is the author of Beyond Positivism: Economic Methodology in the 20th Century, first published in 1982.
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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 Clare Hall, Cambridge.
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