"Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural……" — Evan Davis
"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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63 Quotes by Evan Davis
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Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe…
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Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty,…
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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.…
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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…
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I don't keep it secret that I live with my partner Gio. I'm very proud of my gayness. But there…
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It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter.…
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But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience…
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For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interview, they…
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For years, we've grown dependant on American consumers as the world's spenders of last resort. They've kept Europe out of…
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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…
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Interest rate cuts have an effect in stimulating an economy by directly or indirectly making someone, somewhere, spend more than…
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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…
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To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem…
— Paulo Freire
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A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a…
— Charles Lamb
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It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of…
— Aristotle
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Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells…
— Bertrand Russell
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Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual…
— John Dewey
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We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world…
— Muhammad Yunus
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I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the…
— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
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Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and…
— Carl Rogers
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An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and…
— Milan Kundera
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The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will…
— Ralph Merkle
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