INTERVIEW: "Real policymaking involves a lot of other things besides pure technical analysis.".

An interview with economist Ben S. Bernanke, who served as chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014, is presented. Bernanke talks about whether economists have a good understanding of how government can fuel innovation and how to measure the impact of that innovation, his assessment of talk of economic disentanglement between the U.S. and China, and his view on how artificial intelligence will affect employment.