Honors College Professor Selected as HOPE Visiting Scholar at Duke University
Keith Jakee, Ph.D., associate professor of economics at the Harriett L. Wilkes Honors College, has won a prestigious appointment in his field, being recently selected as a Senior Visiting Research Scholar at Duke University’s Center for the History of Political Economy (HOPE). The Center for the History of Political Economy's mission is to promote and support research in, and the teaching of, the history of economics.
Dr. Jakee will work on two projects centering on Nobel Laureates James M. Buchanan and Ronald Coase. The Buchanan project centers on the evolution of his political theory between Calculus of Consent (1962) and Limits of Liberty (1975), which spans the tumultuous 1960s. The Coase project focuses on modern treatments of his "transaction cost" insight. "There are, however, common themes between these two authors that have been largely overlooked," said Jakee. "The HOPE Center visit will allow me to present my work at seminars, engage in ongoing conversations over these projects with world-renowned Center members, and advance these projects towards publication."
HOPE supports a regular Workshop series, a series for discussing work-in-progress, special events, a Summer Institute, and, with Duke University Press, the annual History of Political Economy conference. The Center was founded in 2008 with a significant grant from the John W. Pope Foundation. The Center also has the world's best archive of famous economists' personal files and manuscripts. It is also responsible for founding the premiere journal focused on the history of economic thought and analysis, History of Political Economy.
