2026-05-11
1 小时 1 分钟Welcome to Macro Musings, where each week we pull back the curtain and take a closer look at the most important
macroeconomic issues of the past, present, and future.
I am your host, David Beckworth, a Senior Research Fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University,
and I'm glad you decided to join us.
Our guest today is Tyler Goodsby.
Tyler is a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors and currently is a chief economist in the private sector.
He has a new book out titled Recessions, where he takes a look at what really causes recessions.
Tyler, welcome to the podcast.
Good to be with you, David.
Great to have you on.
This was a really fascinating read, and it 's going to challenge a lot of people's priors,
kind of their view on what drives business cycles and how to think about business cycles.
Before we get into it, tell us a little bit about yourself
and how you ended up writing a book on what really causes recessions.
So in one respect, it was a continuation of my intellectual journey as an academic economist.
I had been for over a decade researching, writing about not just historical economic shocks and historical
economic recessions, but also the intellectual debates about those.
And then secondly.
I had just when I started the project,
I had just we had all just lived through one of the sharpest economic contractions in U.S.