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New Economic Thinking Needs Old Ideas

Oct 17, 2018 | History

Investigating the history of economic thought fuels innovative thinking 

Interview Featuring

  • Bruce Caldwell

    • Advisory Board
    • Director, Center for the History of Political Economy, Duke University

Credits: Matthew Kulvicki, Nick Alpha, Gonçalo Fonseca

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Bruce Caldwell, Director of the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University, uses his scholarship on F.A. Hayek to explain why studying the economists of the past is essential to developing the economics of the future.

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