The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University will host its annual Summer Institute following our research workshop format on June 24-27, 2025. We invite scholars (doctoral students and those with recently awarded PhDs) to apply.
The goal of the Summer Institute is to allow young scholars working in the history of economics (broadly defined) to improve their manuscripts and to receive practice in presenting their work. Successful applicants will participate in multiple sessions each day, each lasting 1 hour and 15 minutes. In each session a participant will have 20 minutes to present their paper, followed by group discussion on ways to improve both the substance of the paper and its presentation. Successful applicants will be hosted at the AC Hotel Durham (breakfast provided) and reimbursed for travel as outlined below.
- Travel within North America: Reimbursed for mileage or coach flight.
- Overseas travel: Reimbursement up to $1000.00 USD.
Scholars will arrive on Tuesday, June 24th in time to attend a welcome dinner. Sessions will take place on Wednesday and Thursday. Participants will depart the morning of Friday, June 27th. This will allow those who wish to attend the History of Economics Society meeting in Richmond, Virginia, which takes place from June 27-30, to do so.
We look forward to this year's Summer Institute.
Eligibility
The Summer Institute programs are designed primarily for PhD graduate students in economics programs in North America. However, applications from students and scholars from other fields and from overseas will be welcomed.
The Institute's faculty will assess applications with regard to:
- Academic and professional accomplishments of the candidate.
- Quality of paper draft and or paper proposal.
Application deadline and requirements:
Application Deadline: March 16 ,2025
Requirements:
Applicants should submit items 1. and 2. compiled as a single PDF.
1. Curriculum Vitae or brief biography not exceeding four pages.
2. A paper proposal outlining the content of the expected paper or a draft of the paper to be presented during the Summer Institute. A copy of the final paper should be submitted prior to the Summer Institute by June 13, 2025. This will allow all participants to read everyone's papers.
Applicants should submit their materials via Strongbox. Label your document packet with your last name and the year (e.g. Smith 2025). After submitting, notify us by emailing chope@econ.duke.edu.
If you do not receive an acknowledgment of your application within one to two days, please email us to confirm that we have received your submission.
Successful applicants will be notified of their selection in late March and should respond within a week by accepting or declining the offer.
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Bruce Caldwell is a Research Professor of Economics and the Director of the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University. He is the author of Beyond Positivism: Economic Methodology in the 20th Century (1982), of Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek (2004), and with Hansjoerg Klausinger, of Hayek: A Life 1899-1950 (2022). Since 2002 he has been the General Editor of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, a multi-volume collection of Hayekâs writings whose final volume appeared in 2022. A past president of the History of Economics Society and of the Southern Economic Association, when he's not working on Hayek, he doesn't know what to do, but sometimes he fills his time with tennis and golf.
Beatrice Cherrier is a historian of Economics at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), affiliated with CREST and Ecole Polytechnique, France. She researches the history of the applied turn in economics from the 1970s onwards. This has led her to investigate the development of economics in engineering-oriented universities such as MIT and Stanford, the status of women in the economics profession, the uses of models in policy spheres, in particular central banks, how economists model the future through discounting, and the epistemologies and computational practices developed in specific subfields (urban economics, public economics, macroeconomics).
Spencer Banzhaf is a professor in the department of agricultural and resource economics at North Carolina State University and the director of the Center for Environmental and Resource Economic Policy (CEnREP). His research interests span applied microeconomics and the history of economics. He is the author of Pricing the Priceless: A History of Environmental Economics (Cambridge U Press, 2023) and numerous journal articles. He is also the editor of the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy.
Steve G. Medema is the George Family Research Professor in the Department of Economics at Duke University and the Associate Director of the Center for the History of Political Economy. He is the author of The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas (Princeton, 2009), Economics and the Law: From Posner to Post Modernism and Beyond (Princeton, 2006), and The Economics Book: From Xenophon to Cryptocurrency, 250 Milestones in the History of Economics (Sterling, 2019). He currently serves as the general editor of the Oxford Studies in the History of Economics book series, published by Oxford University Press, and was editor of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought from 1999 to 2008. Dr. Medema's current research project explores the history of the use of the Coase theorem in economics, law, and beyond.
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Venue
- Lodging and breakfast will be provided by the Center at the AC Hotel Durham
- Sessions will be held in 113 Social Sciences Building; 419 Chapel Drive, Durham NC 27708
Travel
- Duke University is located near downtown Durham. View Larger Map
- RDU International Airport is located about 20 miles from campus. Taxi and Uber services are recommended for travel to and from the airport. A taxi from the airport to campus will cost around $50.
- The campus buses operate on a limited schedule during the summer. More information on transportation can be found at Duke University Transportation Services.
Weather
- June in North Carolina can range from 60 degrees in the evenings to 90 during the day.
Dining
- The Brodhead Center in the West Union Building contains several restaurants, but they may have limited hours during the summer.
- For complete details of dining on campus, visit Duke Dining.
- A wide variety of cuisines are available in Durham. There are some great restaurants and bars on Ninth Street and along Main Street downtown. These two streets are easily accessible from East Campus, which is accessible by campus bus from West Campus.
Library Hours
- See here.
Health
- In the event of a life-threatening emergency, participants should go directly to the Emergency Department (684-2413). If necessary, Duke Police (911 or 684-2444) will provide on-campus transportation to the Emergency Department.
Banking
- There are ATMs on the bottom floor of the Bryan Center.
Durham Events/Info
- For a calendar of events and information on things to do in the area, go here.
For help with additional details or questions please email chope@econ.duke.edu.