Evan Davis Quotes - Page 2

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• As it happens, I have personally been something of an enthusiast for the London Olympic games, mainly on the grounds a) that a bit of wasteland will be made nice and b) that it tends to make everybody happy that their country should be the centre of world attention for a couple of weeks in their life.

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  Country, Couple, Nice

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• Art can help a town by attracting a certain Bohemian population that adds life to the bars, character to the streets and a buzz to the name. Employers may then follow. But art can't do much if every town does it. There aren't enough Bohemians.

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  Art, Character, Names

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• Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay.

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  Senior, Mean, Editors

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• We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.

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  Sports, Statistics, Finance

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• Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of.

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  Mistake, Ashamed

  "Evan Davis: 'I'm a presenter who is gay rather than a gay presenter'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2011.

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• Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively.

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  Decision, Brain, Example

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• In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.

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  Principles, Three, Matter

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• Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues.

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  Issues, Way, Argument

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• We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.

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  Behaviour, Cheat, Accepted

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• What is so striking about Liberia is that in a place where there is so much to be done, I have never seen so many people with nothing to do.

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  People, Done

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• Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption.

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  Thinking, Practice, Long

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• Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us.

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  Men, Order, Pissed Off

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• For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interview, they should be prepared to face some downside as well.

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  People, Principles, Benefits

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• I've never enjoyed sleep as much until I got the 'Today' job. There is something about early sleep that's much better than late sleep. I feel myself going to sleep; I don't just plonk my head on the pillow. It's a sort of winding-down thing.

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  Jobs, Sleep, Today

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• Interest rate cuts have an effect in stimulating an economy by directly or indirectly making someone, somewhere, spend more than they otherwise would. That extra spending increases demand and ensures that we all carry on with work to do, without us having to slash our prices or our wrists.

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  Cutting, Demand, Economy

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• Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology.

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  Psychology, Hot, Topics

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• I rarely come away from presenting the 'Today' programme without some sense of regret. There is always some question that I should have asked, or some point that I should have made. This is annoying but not surprising. Perfection is hard to achieve in a three-hour live programme.

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  Regret, Should Have, Perfection

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• My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up.

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  Competition, Needs, News

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• Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify.

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  Luxury, Healthy, Elements

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• I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view.

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  Swings, Views, Way

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• I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better.

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  Thinking, World, Boring

  "Think of me as a man of mystery" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 05, 2005.

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• Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 percent of the world's mobile phones.

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  Aerospace, Phones, Car

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• At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think there's quite a bit more we can do.

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  Jobs, Thinking, Air

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• But beginners to the World Economics Forum have to understand there is no single Davos experience, and there is no single Davos community either. There are numerous tribes who interact only at a minimal level.

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  Community, Beginners, World

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• Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes Britain tick - the bridges, tunnels, power and water networks, which bind us together.

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  Thinking, Tunnels, Engineering

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