Goodhart’s Law: When a target becomes its own enemy
Idea to Value
AUGUST 10, 2021
Goodhart’s Law is named after economist Charles Goodhart, who in an 1975 essay about Monetary policy noticed that “ Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes. That was not its fault. What is the strategy? Is it clearly communicated and understood.
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