Evan Davis
Evan Davis
Evan Harold Davisis an English economist, journalist, and presenter for the BBC...
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth8 April 1962
issues way argument
Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues.
today programmes
Personally, I'd like us to have a few more women on the 'Today' programme.
writing want ifs
It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.
views want sound
I don't want to sound like 'chirpy Evan' who's just bouncing around with his unrealistic views and doesn't understand what's going on.
pain gay thinking
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.
mistake ashamed
Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of.
behaviour cheat accepted
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.
self expression law
A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.
keys interesting very-interesting
The key thing about me is that I'm really not very interesting.
two house down-and
The two questions that anyone ever asks me are: 'Are house prices going to go down?' and 'Is it a good time to fix my mortgage rate?'
party glasses office
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. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box.
community world levels
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.
country couple nice
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.
decision brain baggage
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.