If he didn’t repeat himself yesterday, then I might not have known that he said the same thing back in 2015….
Bank of England governor trashes textbook theory and rips apart the workings and effects of the global financial superstructure, read the original speech here from three years ago
…and another blog which probably analyses it better than me here
Their world imagines self-interested, atomistic agents, coolly calculating odds over all future possible states of the world, writing and trading contracts with each other, all frictionlessly enforced, all achieving mutually beneficial – indeed socially optimal – outcomes.
Of course, markets only clear in textbooks. In fact people are irrational, economies are imperfect, and nature itself is unknowable.
When imperfections exist (which is always), adding markets can sometimes make things worse.
Mark Carney timeless quotes can be found throughout this speech