Bruce Caldwell
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 230386 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bruce Caldwell |
| NOMBRES | Bruce |
| APELLIDO | Caldwell |
| FIRMA | CALDWELL B |
| AFILIACIONES | Australian National University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 286 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Milton Friedman
The cover of Jennifer Burns's impressive new biography of Milton Friedman is inviting and, frankly, hilarious. Pictured there is an impish yet slightly serious-looking Milton, holding up a freshly minted uncut sheet of dollar bills, inspecting it like he was reading the evening newspaper or studying the wine list at a favorite restaurant. The photo is in black and white but the book-jacket color is, appropriately, green.Burns intends her book to …
Mont Pèlerin 1947
Jhet Interviews
Karen Vaughn received her BA in economics from Queens College of the City Universi-ty of New York in 1966 and her PhD from Duke University in 1971. From 1978 to 2004 she taught at George Mason University. She attended some of the earliest meet-ings of the History of Economics Society (HES) and was the editor of the HES Bulletin, which was the precursor of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought. Professor Vaughn has served as the President…
Keynes and Hayek
Research Article| February 01 2019 Keynes and Hayek Bruce Caldwell Bruce Caldwell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2019) 51 (1): 89–94. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-7289288 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bruce Caldwell; Keynes and Hayek. History of Political Economy 1 February 2019; 51 (1): 89–94. doi: https://doi.org/10.…
F. A. Hayek and the Economic Calculus
This article offers a revisionist account of certain episodes in the development of F. A. Hayek's thought. It offers a new reading of his 1937 paper, “Economics and Knowledge,” that draws on unpublished lecture notes in which he articulated more fully the distinctions he made in the paper between a “pure logic of choice,” or the economic calculus, and an “empirical element,” which he would later call the competitive market order. Next, the essay …
Beyond Positivism
Since its publication in 1982, Beyond Positivism has become established as one of the definitive statements on economic methodology. The book‘s rejection of positivism and its advocacy of pluralism were to have a profound influence in the flowering of work methodology that has taken place in economics in the decade since its publication. This editi
The informal health sector and health care-seeking behaviour of mothers in urban Dhaka slums
Friedrich Hayek and his visits to Chile
The Pure Theory of Capital
F. A. Hayek’s long-overlooked volume, was his most detailed work in economic theory. Originally published in 1941 when fashionable economic thought had shifted to John Maynard Keynes, Hayek’s manifesto of capital theory is now available again for today’s students and economists to discover. With a new introduction by Hayek expert Lawrence H. White, who firmly situates the book not only in historical and theoretical context but within Hayek’s own …
Low Income, Social Growth, and Good Health
Reviewed by: Low Income, Social Growth, and Good Health: A History of Twelve Countries Bruce Caldwell James C. Riley. Low Income, Social Growth, and Good Health: A History of Twelve Countries. California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public, no. 17. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xvi + 229 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-0-520-25286-8). James C. Riley’s new book builds on many years of work on the historical conditions that lead to sustai…
A. W. (Bob) Coats, 1924–2007
Bob Coats was an exceptional scholar. His work covered a wide range of periods and places, from eighteenth-century Europe to the contemporary United States. Furthermore it spanned different disciplines—economic and social history, intellectual history, philosophy of science, and the sociology of knowledge. What makes him exceptional is the way he helped open new fields of research within these areas: the study of American economics, the professio…
Gordon Tullock’s The Organization of Inquiry
Hayek on Mill
It is perhaps an understatement to say that trying to understand F. A. Hayek’s assessment of John Stuart Mill is a complicated matter. Hayek referred to Mill frequently. Sometimes, and particularly in The Constitution of Liberty (1960), he praised him. What may surprise those who associate both Mill and Hayek with the classical liberal tradition is that more often, and this in writings that both preceded and followed publication of The Constituti…
The Legacy of Ludwig von Mises
The Road to Serfdom
Life Writings
Research Article| December 01 2007 Life Writings: On-the-Job Training with F. A. Hayek Bruce Caldwell Bruce Caldwell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2007) 39 (Suppl_1): 342–354. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2006-051 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions C…
Hayek, social science, and politics
Hayek's case for the limits of economic agents’ knowledge does not, as Greg Hill seems to suggest, imply that government should be in the business of engaging in countercyclical fiscal policy or paternalistic corrections of people's pursuit of “imaginary goods.” In the latter case, markets have corrective learning mechanisms for consumer mistakes. In the former, public‐choice and public‐ignorance problems plague government efforts to correct the …
Factors affecting female age at marriage in South Asia
In contrast to East and South-east Asia, changes in marriage patterns have played a small role in reducing fertility in South Asia. While age at marriage for women has risen, it remains early, with the exception of Sri Lanka, and change has been slow. Except in Sri Lanka, the region has shown few signs that there will be a sizable population that will never marry. South Asia's marriage patterns reflect its cultural context and lesser socio-econom…
The Causes of the Asian Fertility Decline
The Asian demographic transition is treated as one aspect of the global Industrial Revolution, which started in the West but now involves the whole world. In fact, the multiplication of per capita income in Asia in the second half of the twentieth century has been the world's fastest. With the rise in female education, urban living and non-agricultural employment, as well as the mortality decline that began early in the twentieth century and gove…
Trends in water usage and knowledge of arsenicosis in Bangladesh
The presence of arsenic in tubewell water has been identified as a major health problem in Bangladesh. The Bangladesh Government, with international assistance, is attempting to mitigate the effects of arsenic by a major programme of tubewell water testing and education about arsenic and how its ingestion can be avoided. In early 2000 the first nationally representative cluster sample survey of water use in Bangladesh found that knowledge of arse…
Recovering popper
In his biography of Karl Popper, Malachi Hacohen brilliantly reconstructs the development of Popper's ideas through 1946, correcting many errors regarding the sequence of their emergence. In addition he recreates Popper's Vienna and provides insights into Popper's complex personality. A larger goal of Hacohen's narrative is to show the relevance of Popper's philosophical and political thought for the left. Unfortunately this leads him to neglect …
Family Size Control by Infanticide in the Great Agrarian Societies of Asia
There is now sufficient historical demographic analysis of India, Japan and China to show that infanticide has traditionally been employed to shape families. The driving force has often been the need to preserve family property from division by inheritance or dispersal by the payment of high dowries, although, especially in China, current subsistence problems have also been important. The practice has often been more frequent among the rich than …
Below-replacement fertility
Tubewells and arsenic in Bangladesh
Bangladesh has seen one of the developing world's great public health successes, the conversion of the drinking water source for 94% of the rural population to ‘safe water’, in the form of tubewells, with the aim of reducing morbidity and mortality from water‐borne disease. Now, that success is being endangered by the discovery that 20 million people may be in great danger and another 20 million in lesser danger of being poisoned by arsenic conta…
Mark Nichter
Beyond Positivism
Since its publication in 1982, Beyond Positivism has become established as one of the definitive statements on economic methodology. The book‘s rejection of positivism and its advocacy of pluralism were to have a profound influence in the flowering of work methodology that has taken place in economics in the decade since its publication. This editi
Hayek's Transformation
Research Article| November 01 1988 Hayek's Transformation Bruce J. Caldwell Bruce J. Caldwell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1988) 20 (4): 513–541. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-20-4-513 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bruce J. Caldwell; Hayek's Transformation. History of Political Economy 1 November 1988; 20 (4): 513–541…
Anthropology and Demography
The Bangladesh Fertility Decline
The claim has been made, notably in a 1994 World Bank report, that the Bangladesh fertility decline shows that efficient national family planning programs can achieve major fertility declines even in countries that are very poor, and even if females have a low status and significant socioeconomic change has not occurred. This article challenges this claim on the grounds that Bangladesh did experience major social and economic change, real and per…
The Construction of Adolescence in a Changing World
This article aims to show how the period now known as adolescence came into being and how it was shaped by international economic, institutional, and social influences. It considers premodern societies and argues that traditional culture has shaped contemporary adolescence even more than has global society. Explanations are offered for the enormous differences across the world in adolescent sexuality, reproduction, and marriage. The data are draw…
Friedrich Hayek and his visits to Chile
Praxeology and its Critics
Research Article| September 01 1984 Praxeology and its Critics: an Appraisal Bruce J. Caldwell Bruce J. Caldwell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1984) 16 (3): 363–379. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-16-3-363 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon C…
Factors affecting female age at marriage in South Asia
In contrast to East and South-east Asia, changes in marriage patterns have played a small role in reducing fertility in South Asia. While age at marriage for women has risen, it remains early, with the exception of Sri Lanka, and change has been slow. Except in Sri Lanka, the region has shown few signs that there will be a sizable population that will never marry. South Asia's marriage patterns reflect its cultural context and lesser socio-econom…
Searching for an optimum solution to the Bangladesh arsenic crisis
Tubewells and arsenic in Bangladesh
Bangladesh has seen one of the developing world's great public health successes, the conversion of the drinking water source for 94% of the rural population to ‘safe water’, in the form of tubewells, with the aim of reducing morbidity and mortality from water‐borne disease. Now, that success is being endangered by the discovery that 20 million people may be in great danger and another 20 million in lesser danger of being poisoned by arsenic conta…
The First Generation to Control Family Size
In Bangladesh, the total fertility rate declined from more than six children per woman of reproductive age in 1980 to 3.3 children per woman in 1996. Much discussion has ensued about the circumstances responsible for this decline and, in particular, about the contribution made by the national family planning program. For this study, qualitative interviews were conducted with 67 women concerning the factors influencing their reproductive behavior.…
Post-Keynesian methodology
The purpose of this article is to offer a preliminary assessment of post-Keynesian methodology. This is undertaken by initially defining and developing the methodological perspective known as critical pluralism. It is argued that post-Keynesians might well benefit from a better understanding of the methodological views of other groups within economics
Is Marriage Delay a Multiphasic Response to Pressures for Fertility Decline? The Case of Sri Lanka
John Caldwell, Indra Gajanayake, Bruce Caldwell, Pat Caldwell, Is Marriage Delay a Multiphasic Response to Pressures for Fertility Decline? The Case of Sri Lanka, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 51, No. 2 (May, 1989), pp. 337-351
Sexual regimes and sexual networking
Why Didn't Hayek Review Keynes's General Theory
Research Article| November 01 1998 Why Didn't Hayek Review Keynes's General Theory? Bruce Caldwell Bruce Caldwell 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1998) 30 (4): 545–569. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-30-4-545 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Ico…
The Causes of the Asian Fertility Decline
The Asian demographic transition is treated as one aspect of the global Industrial Revolution, which started in the West but now involves the whole world. In fact, the multiplication of per capita income in Asia in the second half of the twentieth century has been the world's fastest. With the rise in female education, urban living and non-agricultural employment, as well as the mortality decline that began early in the twentieth century and gove…
Family Size Control by Infanticide in the Great Agrarian Societies of Asia
There is now sufficient historical demographic analysis of India, Japan and China to show that infanticide has traditionally been employed to shape families. The driving force has often been the need to preserve family property from division by inheritance or dispersal by the payment of high dowries, although, especially in China, current subsistence problems have also been important. The practice has often been more frequent among the rich than …
Below-replacement fertility
Coitus‐dependent Family Planning Methods
Some coitus‐dependent methods of family planning, such as withdrawal, periodic abstinence, and the condom, require male involvement for their use, and using these methods in combination has proved to be sensible. An investigation of why male and female respondents in a survey conducted in Bangladesh often gave conflicting answers about which methods they were currently using, particularly about “traditional” methods and condoms, showed that incon…
The Role of Traditional Fertility Regulation in Sri Lanka
Among the countries of South Asia, Sri Lanka, with a birth rate of 26 per 1,000, has achieved by far the lowest fertility level. The research reported here shows that at least half of all fertility control there is still practiced by means other than those offered by the national family planning program. This paper reports on an investigation carried out by the Sri Lankan Department of Census and Statistics, employing a micro-approach to demograp…
Some Problems with Falsificationism in Economics
Was there a neolithic mortality crisis
Pretransitional population control and equilibrium
A persistent theme in much anthropological writing is the concept of the deliberate control of population numbers by hunter-gatherers as a means of achieving moderate family size, adequate nutrition, and constrained adult mortality. An analysis of the mix of theory and field evidence that led to this conclusion finds the case not proven. On the contrary, Malthusian constraints can operate, and probably did operate, to produce a hunter-gatherer so…
Towards a Broader Conception of Criticism
Research Article| November 01 1986 Towards a Broader Conception of Criticism Bruce J. Caldwell Bruce J. Caldwell 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1986) 18 (4): 675–681. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-18-4-675 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon…
F. A. Hayek and the Economic Calculus
This article offers a revisionist account of certain episodes in the development of F. A. Hayek's thought. It offers a new reading of his 1937 paper, “Economics and Knowledge,” that draws on unpublished lecture notes in which he articulated more fully the distinctions he made in the paper between a “pure logic of choice,” or the economic calculus, and an “empirical element,” which he would later call the competitive market order. Next, the essay …
Beyond Positivism
Since its publication in 1982, Beyond Positivism has become established as one of the definitive statements on economic methodology. The book's rejection of positivism and its advocacy of pluralism were to have a profound influence in the flowering of work methodology that has taken place in economics in the decade since its publication. This edition contains a new preface outlining the major developments in the area since the book's first appear…
Some Problems with Falsificationism in Economics
Praxeology and its Critics
Research Article| September 01 1984 Praxeology and its Critics: an Appraisal Bruce J. Caldwell Bruce J. Caldwell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1984) 16 (3): 363–379. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-16-3-363 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon C…
Towards a Broader Conception of Criticism
Research Article| November 01 1986 Towards a Broader Conception of Criticism Bruce J. Caldwell Bruce J. Caldwell 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1986) 18 (4): 675–681. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-18-4-675 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon…
The Role of Traditional Fertility Regulation in Sri Lanka
Among the countries of South Asia, Sri Lanka, with a birth rate of 26 per 1,000, has achieved by far the lowest fertility level. The research reported here shows that at least half of all fertility control there is still practiced by means other than those offered by the national family planning program. This paper reports on an investigation carried out by the Sri Lankan Department of Census and Statistics, employing a micro-approach to demograp…
Anthropology and Demography
Michael Polanyi
Developments in Economic Methodology with Implications for Political Science
Hayek's Transformation
Research Article| November 01 1988 Hayek's Transformation Bruce J. Caldwell Bruce J. Caldwell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1988) 20 (4): 513–541. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-20-4-513 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bruce J. Caldwell; Hayek's Transformation. History of Political Economy 1 November 1988; 20 (4): 513–541…
Post-Keynesian methodology
The purpose of this article is to offer a preliminary assessment of post-Keynesian methodology. This is undertaken by initially defining and developing the methodological perspective known as critical pluralism. It is argued that post-Keynesians might well benefit from a better understanding of the methodological views of other groups within economics
Is Marriage Delay a Multiphasic Response to Pressures for Fertility Decline? The Case of Sri Lanka
John Caldwell, Indra Gajanayake, Bruce Caldwell, Pat Caldwell, Is Marriage Delay a Multiphasic Response to Pressures for Fertility Decline? The Case of Sri Lanka, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 51, No. 2 (May, 1989), pp. 337-351
Rationality in Economics
Journal Article Rationality in Economics Get access Rationality in Economics. By SHAUN HARGREAVES-HEAP. (Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1989. Pp. ix + 238. £29.50 hardback. ISBN 0631 156666.) Bruce J. Caldwell Bruce J. Caldwell The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 101, Issue 407, 1 July 1991, Pages 974–976, https://doi.org/10.230…
Ludwig M. Lachmann
Economic Methodology
Hayek, Co-ordination and Evolution
Journal Article Hayek, Co-ordination and Evolution: His Legacy in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas. Get access Hayek, Co-ordination and Evolution: His Legacy in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas. Edited by Birner (Jack) and VAN Zijp (Rudy). (London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. xi + 388. £45.00 hardback. ISBN 0 415 09397 X.) Bruce Caldwell Bruce Caldwell University of North Carolina-Greensboro a…
Socialism and War
Why Didn't Hayek Review Keynes's General Theory
Research Article| November 01 1998 Why Didn't Hayek Review Keynes's General Theory? Bruce Caldwell Bruce Caldwell 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1998) 30 (4): 545–569. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-30-4-545 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Ico…
The Construction of Adolescence in a Changing World
This article aims to show how the period now known as adolescence came into being and how it was shaped by international economic, institutional, and social influences. It considers premodern societies and argues that traditional culture has shaped contemporary adolescence even more than has global society. Explanations are offered for the enormous differences across the world in adolescent sexuality, reproduction, and marriage. The data are draw…
Coitus‐dependent Family Planning Methods
Some coitus‐dependent methods of family planning, such as withdrawal, periodic abstinence, and the condom, require male involvement for their use, and using these methods in combination has proved to be sensible. An investigation of why male and female respondents in a survey conducted in Bangladesh often gave conflicting answers about which methods they were currently using, particularly about “traditional” methods and condoms, showed that incon…
Sexual regimes and sexual networking
Pluralism in Economics
Other| June 01 1999 Pluralism in Economics: New Perspectives in History and Methodology Andrea Salanti and Ernesto Screpanti, 1997. viii; 319 pp. $90.00. Cheltenham, England: Edward Elgar. Bruce Caldwell Bruce Caldwell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1999) 31 (2): 420–421. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-31-2-420 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary …
Effect of price and access on contraceptive use
The Bangladesh Fertility Decline
The claim has been made, notably in a 1994 World Bank report, that the Bangladesh fertility decline shows that efficient national family planning programs can achieve major fertility declines even in countries that are very poor, and even if females have a low status and significant socioeconomic change has not occurred. This article challenges this claim on the grounds that Bangladesh did experience major social and economic change, real and per…
The First Generation to Control Family Size
In Bangladesh, the total fertility rate declined from more than six children per woman of reproductive age in 1980 to 3.3 children per woman in 1996. Much discussion has ensued about the circumstances responsible for this decline and, in particular, about the contribution made by the national family planning program. For this study, qualitative interviews were conducted with 67 women concerning the factors influencing their reproductive behavior.…
There ReallyWasa German Historical School of Economics
Research Article| September 01 2001 There Really Was a German Historical School of Economics: A Comment on Heath Pearson Bruce Caldwell Bruce Caldwell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2001) 33 (3): 649–654. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-33-3-649 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bruce Caldwell; There Really Was a German Histo…
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