Bruce Caldwell: HOPE Center, Economists’ Papers Archive, and Hayek Biography, Episode 4

Guest: Bruce Caldwell, Duke University Hosted and produced by Reinhard Schumacher and Juan Acosta For this episode we interviewed Bruce Caldwell, director of the Center for the History of Political Economy (HOPE Center) at Duke University and general editor of the Collected Works of F. A. Hayek. In the first part of the interview we talk about the history of the Center, its activities, and the Economists’ Papers Archive, a collection of papers of notable economists held at Duke’s Rubenstein Library. In the second part we talk about Bruce’s work as the general editor of Hayek’s collected works and about his biography of Hayek he is co-authoring with Hansjörg Klausinger. For those interested in the fellowship programme at the HOPE Center, see here. References mentioned in the episode: Caldwell, Bruce. 1982. Beyond Positivism: Economic Methodology in the Twentieth Century. Routledge. Link Caldwell, Bruce. 2005. Hayek’s Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek. University of Chicago Press. Link SHOE list – mailing list of the History of Economics Society