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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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better.
- Personally, I'd like us to have a few more women on the 'Today' programme.
- 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…
- 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…
- I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool.…
- When a population saves a lot, the funds are invested outside the country as well as inside. If the Japanese invest in the United States,…
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- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle