Professor Caldwell is the Director of the Center for the History of Political Economy, a center whose mission is to promote and support research in, and the teaching of, the history of economics. Founded in 2008, the Center has received grants from a variety of sources, among them the John W. Pope Foundation (2008-present), the Thomas W. Smith Foundation (2011-present), the Institute for New Economic Thinking (2011-2013), the National Endowment for the Humanities (2010, 2013, 2016), and the Charles Koch Foundation (2019-present). A historian of economic thought, Caldwell is the author of Beyond Positivism: Economic Methodology in the 20th Century (1982) and Hayek’s Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek (2004). He is the general editor of The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, a book series that published its final volume in 2022. Also in that year Caldwell published Mont Pelerin 1947: Transcripts of the Founding Meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, as well as the first volume of Hayek: A Life, a family-authorized biography of Hayek. He is a former president and distinguished fellow of both the Southern Economic Association and the History of Economics Society, and has held fellowships at NYU, LSE, the Hoover Institution, and Clare Hall, Cambridge, where he is a Life Fellow.
