Tyler Goodspeed


Tyler Beck Goodspeed is an American economic historian serving as the acting Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.

Early life and education

Goodspeed was born in Exeter, New Hampshire and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 2003. 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.

Career

He was a Junior Research Fellow in economics at St John's College, Oxford from 2014 to 2017 and a Lecturer in economics in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London from 2016 to 2017.
In 2012, he published Rethinking the Keynesian Revolution: Keynes, Hayek, and the Wicksell Connection. 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.
He joined the Council of Economic Advisers in 2017 as senior economist and then chief economist for macroeconomic policy. He was Senate-confirmed as a member in 2019. Upon the resignation of Tomas J. Philipson, Goodspeed became acting Chair on June 24, 2020.

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