2026-09-14
1 小时 27 分钟Welcome to the LSE events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.
LSE events are taking a break over the summer, so we've dug into our archives
of more than 7,000 lectures to bring you some of our favourites, including this one.
Thank you for coming.
I'm delighted to welcome and introduce Bruce Caldwell for this lecture today,
which commemorates the 50th anniversary of Friedrich Hayek's Nobel Prize in Economics of 1974. Hayek,
who won the prize jointly with Swedish economist Gunnar Mervold,
taught here at the LSE from 1931 to 1950. Bruce is currently a research professor of economics
and the director of the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University.
His first book, Beyond Positivism, Economic Methodology in the 20th Century, explored the relationship between
20th century philosophy of science and the writings of economists on questions of economic methodology.
This early interest is one I share and was how I first got to know Bruce at a workshop in Amsterdam.
But for the past three decades, Bruce's research has principally focused
on the multifaceted writings of the Nobel Prize-winning economist and social theorist Hayek.
Following that interest, Caldwell is the author of Hayek's Challenge, an intellectual biography of F.A.
Hayek.
He's the general editor of the collected works of Hayek and the editor of NPS 1947,
which is the transcript of the founding meeting of the Monte Pelerin Society.
He is currently working with Hans-Jörg Klausinger on a family-authorized biography of Hayek titled, Hayek, a Life.