Evan Davis Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

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

“We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly.”

“What comes with a job as a staff member of the BBC is a certain self-censoring that you get utterly used to. You don't say everything you think. You hold back on some things.”

“I don't particularly like going on about being gay or making a big thing about it, but I think it's a bit of a pain to be secretive about it.”

“Phyllis is one of the tunnel boring machines for Crossrail and one of the most extraordinary characters I met, visiting some of the most exciting infrastructure in Britain. Crossrail is the new railway which will run from West to East right across London. It is the biggest engineering project in Europe - and Phyllis herself is not exactly dainty.”

“All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove.”

“Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.”

“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.”

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

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