This represents a major departure from the tradition of filling central banks’ top leadership positions with people who have spent most of their careers there – a tradition that, over time, allowed central banks to be taken over by “groupthink.” With the entrenchment of a particular ideology or mode of thinking, monetary policymakers increasingly missed – by choice or inertia – opportunities to change, reinvigorate, and improve the running of these vital institutions.
这代表着一种传统——由大部分职业生涯都在本地度过的人担任中央银行领导层职位——的重大转变，随着时间的推移，传统的做法令中央银行被“群体思维”所接管。由于特定意识形态和思维方式的隔阂，货币政策制定者错过了越来越多——通过选择或惯性——改变、重振以及改进那些核心机构运行的机会。