Tyler Goodspeed

Tyler Beck Goodspeed (born 1984/1985)^[1] is an American economist and economic historian who was the acting chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from June 2020 to January 2021.^[2]

Tyler Goodspeed
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	Cecilia Rouse
Member of the Council of Economic Advisers
In office May 22, 2019 – January 7, 2021
President	Donald Trump
Preceded by	Richard Burkhauser
Succeeded by	Heather Boushey
Personal details
Born	Tyler Beck Goodspeed 1984 or 1985 (age 39–40) Exeter, New Hampshire, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Oliver McPherson-Smith
Education	Harvard University (BA, MA, PhD) University of Cambridge (MPhil, PhD)

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, summa cum laude, 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] He also received a PhD in economics from Cambridge University.^[5]

Career

He was a junior research fellow (postdoc) in economics at St. John’s College at Oxford University from 2014 to 2017 and a lecturer in economics in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London from 2016 to 2017.^[6][7][8]

In 2012, he published Rethinking the Keynesian Revolution: Keynes, Hayek, and the Wicksell Connection.^{[9][10][11][12]} His 2016 book, Legislating Instability: Adam Smith, Free Banking, and the Financial Crisis of 1772, analyses the collapse of the Ayr Bank in the Crisis of 1772.^{[13][14][15][16][17]} 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.^[18]

He joined the Council of Economic Advisers in 2017 as senior economist and then chief economist for macroeconomic policy.^[19] He became a member in 2019.^[20][21] Goodspeed was appointed acting Chair on June 23, 2020.^[22] Goodspeed also chaired the Economic Policy Committee at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).^[23]

In March 2021 he became the Kleinheinz Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.^[24] In 2023 he became the Chief Economist of ExxonMobil Corporation.^[25]

Personal life

Goodspeed is married to fellow academic Oliver McPherson-Smith.^[26]

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.