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] 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]
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