Saturday, December 25, 2010

Goodhart's Law

Goodhart's Law
Created: 1975.
Named after: Charles Goodhart, Bank of England Advisor and London School of Economics' Professor Emeritus.
The Law: "Once a social or economic measure is turned into a target for policy, it will lose any information content that had qualified it to play such a role in the first place."
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