Skip to content

Alt-M

Ideas for an Alternative Monetary Future

Alt-M

Ideas for an Alternative Monetary Future

  • Home
  • Contributors
    • George Selgin
    • Larry White
    • James Dorn
    • Jennifer Schulp
    • Norbert Michel
  • Primer
  • Working Paper Series
About Tyler Beck Goodspeed
Tyler Beck Goodspeed is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives and senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisers. He was formerly a Lecturer in Economics in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London, as well as a Junior Research Fellow in Economics at the University of Oxford. His primary research and teaching interests are in the fields of economic and financial history and monetary economics, with secondary interests in political economy, development, and the history of economic thought.

His most recent book, Legislating Instability, examines the effects of unlimited liability and regulatory capture on financial stability in "free banking" Scotland. He also has a forthcoming book, Famine and Finance, on the market for small loans during the Great Famine of Ireland, as well as companion articles in the Journal of Development Economics and World Bank Economic Review. Tyler's current research focuses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and North American economic history, with particular attention to informal banking and the political economy of financial regulation, as well as long-run economic development. Previously, in his first book, Rethinking the Keynesian Revolution, he analyzed the debates between John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek, considering the relevance of those debates to contemporary monetary economics.

Goodspeed earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2014. He received his A.B. from Harvard College, summa cum laude, in 2008, and from 2008-2009 was a Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge. He is also an avid distance runner.
Website
Ayr Banknote
Economic History, Free Banking

Lessons from the Ayr Bank Failure

Tyler Beck Goodspeed/May 11, 2015June 19, 2022

One consequence of the financial crisis of 2008-09 has been renewed interest in the merits of contingent convertible debt as a mechanism for equity bail-ins at moments of acute financial distress.  Should it fail, a financial institution's contingent bonds are automatically converted into equity shares.  History suggests…

Continue reading
 

Follow

Print

Subscribe


Contributors

  • George Selgin
  • Chuck Moulton
  • Bradley Jansen
  • Larry White
  • Hu McCulloch
  • James Dorn
  • Diego Zuluaga
  • Nicholas Anthony
  • Jennifer Schulp
  • Working Paper Series
  • Norbert Michel

Categories

  • Banking Regulation (120)
  • Booms & Busts (52)
  • Commodity Money (79)
  • Currency Boards (19)
  • Digital Money (99)
  • Economic History (202)
  • Economic Thought (165)
  • Events (60)
  • Fiat Money (81)
  • Financial Innovation (50)
  • Financial Markets (138)
  • Free Banking (211)
  • Inflation & Deflation (83)
  • Legal Analysis (3)
  • Monetary Policy Primer (12)
  • Money & Politics (330)
  • News (252)
  • Recommended Reading (99)
  • Securities Regulation (7)
  • The Fed & Central Banks (378)
  • Uncategorized (11)
  • Working Papers (7)

Recent Posts

  • How Common Has Private Currency Been?
  • Is China a Threat to the Fed? A Critique of the Portman Report
  • The New Deal and Recovery, Part 20, Coda: The Fate of Rosie the Riveter
  • The New Deal and Recovery, Part 20: The Phantom Depression
  • The New Deal and Recovery, Part 19: War, and Peace
  • The Menace of Fiscal Inflation
  • Monetary Progress

About Us

Welcome to Alt-M, a community devoted to exploring and promoting ideas for an alternative monetary future. Our goal is to reveal the shortcomings of today’s centralized, bureaucratic, and discretionary monetary arrangements, and to bring serious consideration of real alternatives to the center stage of current monetary and financial reform debates.

Sponsors

Liberty and Privacy Network
This work by the Cato Institute and the Liberty and Privacy Network is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
DMCA | Privacy Policy
top