2026 Summer Institute

Jason Brent attended the very first HOPE Summer Institute in Denver, CO, during the summer of 2011. He is currently a fellow at the HOPE Center and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Duke University, teaching in the economics department, the Fuqua School of Business, and the Sanford School of Public Policy. In addition to teaching the survey course in the history of economics at Duke for the past four years, Jason has taught courses across the university on economic reasoning that integrate models from the history of economics with contemporary analysis and issues. These courses have been designed to bridge the gap between modern technical economics and the historic models and ideas that still often dominate discussions in the worlds of policy and business.  Since 2019, Jason has taught a course that focuses on economic theories about the very rich from St. Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Piketty.

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 since 2002 has served as the General Editor of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, a multi-volume collection of Hayek’s writings. A past president of the History of Economics Society and of the Southern Economic Association, he is currently working on a family-authorized  biography of Hayek. When he's not working on Hayek, he doesn't know what to do, but sometimes he fills his time with tennis and golf. 
 

Kevin D. Hoover is Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Duke University and the editor of the journal History of Political Economy.  A macroeconomist, historian of economics, and philosopher of science, he was written extensively on the history of macroeconomics, including on Keynes, the new classical macroeconomics, monetarism, the Phillips curve, and the history of central banking, and the history of econometrics.  He is the author of The New Classical Macroeconomics:  A Sceptical Inquiry and has recently completed a book manuscript on the history of the American pragmatist philosopher Charles Peirce’s engagement with economics.  His work on the microfoundations of macroeconomics and on causation crossing frequently between econometrics, macroeconomics, and the history and philosophy of economics.  He is a past president of the History of Economics Society, a past chairman of the International Network for Economic Method, and a past editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology.  He is the author of The Methodology of Empirical Macroeconomics, Causation in Macroeconomics, and Applied Intermediate Macroeconomics. 

Steve G. Medema 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 projects explore the history of the use of Coase theorem in economics, law and beyond, and the evolution of public finance/public economics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.