A converstion with Mark Carney, ex-Governor of the Bank of England
'Building a better world for all'
Chris Johns
I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Mark Carney, ex-Governor of the Bank of England, about many things, but especially about his just published book, Value(s). It’s a big book, full of big ideas. Anyone familiar with Oscar Wildes’s lament - we know the price of everything but the value of nothing - will get the basic idea. But it’s also about the three crises - finance, covid and climate. And much else besides. His ambition is on the front cover; ‘building a better world for all’.
In a cynical age where we seem to be living through Yeats’s ‘The Second Coming’, line by line, an appeal to idealism is sorely needed. It is, at the very least, a manifesto for restoring the political centre. I thought it a wonderful book.
The interview and associated review article have been published by the Irish Times.
The interview is here.
The review article is here.