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Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget.

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Topics: Always Been British Budget Delivered Engineering Given Grand Historically Late Many Over Perhaps Projects Rather Them Wary

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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.

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Topics: About Being Big Big Thing Bit Gay Going Like Making Pain Particularly Secretive Thing Think I Think

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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?'

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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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Topics: Actually Better Better Place Boring Economics Fairly More Place Profoundly Think World

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The key thing about me is that I'm really not very interesting.

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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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For industry to settle in a country, you first need electricity; for electricity, you need some trained workers; for trained workers, you need some schools; for schools you need some money; for money, you need some industry.

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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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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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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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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Economist

Born: April 8th, 1962

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