Professor Charles Goodhart on Economic Policy
Channel: Independent Social Research Foundation
Date: 2021-02-24

Charles Goodhart is Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics and former member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee.

Interviewer: Dr. Ivano Cardinale
Production: Dr. Ricardo Leizaola
Interview date: 19 July 2016 
Place: Goldsmiths, University of London

The excerpts of this video are highlights of the discussion that run for over an hour.

The topics discussed in the video include:
- Economic policy: institutional change, discretion and rules
- The problem of forecasting in economics
- The importance of economic history
- The 2008 financial crisis and economics

A co-production of ISRF and Economics @ Goldsmiths, part of: 

Economics: past, present and future. An interview project

Economics education has been debated for a long time, but since the Global Financial Crisis it has come under public scrutiny. This project aims to provide an accessible way for new generations of economics students and scholars, as well as the general public, to get acquainted with different schools of economic thought and their bearing on economics teaching. We have interviewed distinguished economists on the plurality of analytical traditions within economics and how these have informed their own work. The interviews range from long-standing debates to current issues, and provide first-hand access to the thought of key contemporary economists.