The History of Political Economy

FAIN: EH-50343-12

Duke University (Durham, NC 27705-4677)
Bruce Caldwell (Project Director: March 2012 to August 2014)

A three-week institute for twenty-five college and university faculty on the history of economic thought.

The proposal seeks funding for a three week summer institute to be held at Duke University in June 2013. The institute will explore various episodes in the development of the history of economic thought. It will build on the successes of an earlier institute held in 2010, while attempting to improve in those areas in which we received criticism. The intended audience is faculty in economics and the humanities who desire to explore economic knowledge in an historically informed fashion in their teaching but do not have the background to do so.