In the video clip below, Jeremy Paxman grills Mark Carney, the Bank of England's Governor. When Carney came into office, he said that interest rates wouldn't rise until unemployment fell to 7%. With the unemployment rate at 7.1%, Carney seems to be backtracking on this commitment. This is a perfect example of the time inconsistency problem.
Michael Aldous and I had our book The CEO: The Rise and Fall of Britain's Captains of Industry published a few weeks ago. You can find out more about it and buy it at Cambridge University Press's website . It is also available at Amazon , Waterstones , and Barnes & Noble . The CEO has already been reviewed in The Sunday Times , The Observer and Financial Times .