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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.

~Evan Davis

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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 has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay.

~Evan Davis

Topics: Actually Although Anything Because Being Cheaper Decades Does Economics Edit Editor Ever Given Higher Impressive Mainly Mean More Offer Pay Presumably Reflects Reporters Senior Sounds Status Than Two Which Bbc

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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.

~Evan Davis

Topics: Beginners Community Economics Either Experience Forum Interact Level Minimal Numerous Only Single Tribes Understand Who World

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When I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China's transformation told in vast, sweeping strokes - involving one fifth of humanity and great pivots of politics and economics.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Accustomed Beijing China Economics Fifth Great Hearing Humanity Involving Moved Politics Story Strokes Sweeping Transformation Vast Write

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Basically, movies come down to economics, and they're always too expensive. From a producer's point of view, an actor is either going to make him money or save him money.

~Ewen Bremner

Topics: Actor Always Basically Come Down Economics Either Expensive Going Him Make Money Movies Point Point Of View Producer Save Too View

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Learn computer science. It's extraordinarily helpful. I like recommending learning economics as well so they think in terms of business, they have rational frameworks for looking at the world, but yeah, computer science is an amazing way to get into, even if you want to be CEO, having a tech background is helpful.

~Fabrice Grinda

Topics: Amazing Background Business Ceo Computer Computer Science Economics Even Extraordinarily Get Having Helpful Learn Learning Like Looking Rational Science Tech Terms Think Want Way Well World Yeah You

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My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the postwar political and cultural forces by choosing a wandering life of impoverishment and wonder. Inevitably, race and economics are a big part of their stories. Childhood, childishness, and children are never far.

~Fanny Howe

Topics: About American Between Big Big Part Childhood Children Choosing Cultural Economics Far Forces Generation Inevitably Life Lived Never Novels Part Political Postwar Race Resisted Stories Wandering Who Wonder

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The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.

~Fay Vincent

Topics: Baseball Big Big Problem Clubs Economics Little Lot Make Money Problem

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The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered.

~Frances O'Grady

Topics: Back Delivered Difficulty Economics Everything Government Ideological Market Out Plain Provide Rip See Which Will Work Work Out

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Economists agree about economics - and that's a science - and they disagree about economic policy because that's a value judgment... I've had profound disagreements on policy with the famous Milton Friedman. But, on economics, we agree.

~Franco Modigliani

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