Tyler Goodspeed
Tyler Beck Goodspeed is an American economic historian who was the acting chair of the Council of Economic Advisers from June 2020 to January 2021.[2] He resigned from his position on January 7, in the wake of the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol.
Tyler Goodspeed | |
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Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers | |
Acting | |
In office June 23, 2020 – January 7, 2021 | |
President | Donald Trump |
Preceded by | Tomas J. Philipson (Acting) |
Succeeded by | Vacant |
Member of the Council of Economic Advisers | |
In office 2019–2021 | |
Preceded by | Richard Burkhauser |
Succeeded by | Vacant |
Personal details | |
Born | 1984/1985 (age 35–36)[1] Exeter, New Hampshire, U.S. |
Political party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | Oliver McPherson-Smith |
Education | Harvard University (BA, MA, PhD) Emmanuel College, Cambridge (MPhil) |
Early life and education
Goodspeed was born in Exeter, New Hampshire and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 2003.[3] He received his BA in economics and history from Harvard University in 2008, an MPhil in economic and social history from Emmanuel College, Cambridge on a Gates Cambridge Scholarship in 2009, and returned to Harvard for his MA in 2011 and PhD in history, specializing in economic history, in 2014. His dissertation, Upon Daedalian Wings of Paper Money: Adam Smith, Free Banking, and the Financial Crisis of 1772, was supervised by a committee with Niall Ferguson, Benjamin M. Friedman, Richard Hornbeck, and Emma Georgina Rothschild.[4]
Career
He was a junior research fellow (postdoc) in economics at St John's College, Oxford from 2014 to 2017 and a lecturer (assistant professor) in economics in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London from 2016 to 2017.[5][6][7]
In 2012, he published Rethinking the Keynesian Revolution: Keynes, Hayek, and the Wicksell Connection.[8][9][10][11] His 2016 book, Legislating Instability: Adam Smith, Free Banking, and the Financial Crisis of 1722, analyses the collapse of the Ayr Bank in the Crisis of 1772. [12][13][14][15][16] His 2017 book, Famine and Finance: Credit and the Great Famine of Ireland, analyzes the role of credit markets in mitigating the impact of adverse environmental shocks.[17]
He joined the Council of Economic Advisers in 2017 as senior economist and then chief economist for macroeconomic policy.[18] He became a member in 2019.[19] Upon the resignation of Tomas J. Philipson, Goodspeed became acting Chair on June 23, 2020.[20] Goodspeed resigned from the CEA on January 7, 2021, following the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol.[21]
Personal life
Goodspeed is married to fellow academic Oliver McPherson-Smith.[22]
Books
- Tyler Beck Goodspeed (2012). Rethinking the Keynesian Revolution: Keynes, Hayek, and the Wicksell Connection. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-994279-4.
- Tyler Beck Goodspeed (2016). Legislating Instability: Adam Smith, Free Banking, and the Financial Crisis of 1722. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-08888-7.
- Tyler Beck Goodspeed (2017). Famine and Finance: Credit and the Great Famine of Ireland. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-31765-6.
References
- Cook, Nancy (July 13, 2020). "White House Appoints Tyler Goodspeed to Lead Council of Economic Advisers". Politico. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
- "Staff". whitehouse.gov.
- "Student Excels in New Hampshire". Sun Journal. July 17, 2003. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
- Goodspeed, Tyler Beck. "Upon Daedalian Wings of Paper Money: Adam Smith, Free Banking, and the Financial Crisis of 1772". Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard.
- Dr. Tyler Beck Goodspeed
- Tyler Goodspeed, Adjunct Scholar – Cato Institute
- Gates Cambridge Scholars 2008 – Gates Cambridge Trust
- Callahan, Gene (2013). "Rethinking the Keynesian Revolution: Keynes, Hayek, and the Wicksell Connection". Review of Political Economy. 25 (4): 682–685. doi:10.1080/09538259.2013.837322. S2CID 154734483.
- Klausinger, Hansjoerg (18 May 2018). "Tyler Beck Goodspeed, Rethinking the Keynesian Revolution: Keynes, Hayek, and the Wicksell Connection, Oxford et alia, Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 194". History of Economic Ideas. 21 (3): 145–49 – via RePEc - Econpapers.
- Fontana, Giuseppe; Ononugbo, Michael (June 2014). "Tyler Beck Goodspeed, Rethinking the Keynesian Revolution: Keynes, Hayek, and the Wicksell Connection (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 216, $55. ISBN 978-0-19-984665-8". Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 36 (2): 262–265. doi:10.1017/S1053837214000297 – via Cambridge Core.
- Skaggs, Neil T. (2014). "Rethinking the Keynesian Revolution". The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 21: 167–170. doi:10.1080/09672567.2013.870303. S2CID 154135353.
- Tribe, Keith (1 March 2018). "Legislating Instability: Adam Smith, Free Banking, and the Financial Crisis of 1772. By Tyler Beck Goodspeed (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016) Pp. xii+208. $39.95". The Journal of Modern History. 90 (1): 183–184. doi:10.1086/695902.
- Kosmetatos, Paul (16 October 2016). "Tyler Beck Goodspeed, Legislating instability: Adam Smith, Free Banking, and the financial crisis of 1772 (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. xii + 208. 23 figs. ISBN 9780674088887 Hbk. £29.95)". The Economic History Review. 69 (4): 1371–1373. doi:10.1111/ehr.12437.
- "Legislating Instability: Adam Smith, Free Banking, and the Financial Crisis of 1772". eh.net.
- Shovlin, John (2016). Legislating Instability: Adam Smith, Free Banking, and the Financial Crisis of 1772. By Tyler Beck Goodspeed . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. xii + 298 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. Business History Review. 90. pp. 808–810. doi:10.1017/S0007680517000228. ISBN 978-0-674-08888-7 – via Cambridge Core.
- Allen, William A. (9 November 2016). "Legislating instability: Adam Smith, Free Banking, and the Financial Crisis of 1772 (book review)". Society of Professional Economists.
- Goodspeed, Tyler Beck (2017). Famine and Finance: Credit and the Great Famine of Ireland. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-319-31764-9.
- "President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Appoint Individual to a Key Administration Post", whitehouse.gov, May 9, 2019.
- "Congratulations ...", CEA/@WhiteHouseCEA Twitter page, May 28, 2019.
- "Senior Economic Adviser Leaving the White House". The Fiscal Times. Retrieved 2020-07-11.
- Haberman, Maggie; Tankersley, Jim (2021-01-07). "More resignations: A Trump economic adviser, deputy security adviser and Mick Mulvaney quit". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
- Cook, Nancy. "White House appoints Goodspeed to lead Council of Economic Advisers". POLITICO. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
External links
- Official website
- "Tyler Beck Goodspeed". EconPapers.
- Tyler Goodspeed publications indexed by Google Scholar
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Preceded by Tomas J. Philipson Acting |
Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers Acting 2020–2021 |
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