Evan Davis
Evan Davis
Evan Harold Davisis an English economist, journalist, and presenter for the BBC...
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth8 April 1962
running character engineering
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.
keys germany labels
One of the key problems is that the Germans know what they do because everywhere they go there's a 'made in Germany' label on it - they can feel proud of Volkswagens and Audis and Mercedes.
thinking world boring
I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better.
light balance today
Even the 'Today' programme involves a balance between the worthy-but-heavy items with the worthless-but-entertainingly-light ones.
sports statistics finance
We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.
mistake ashamed
Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of.
men order pissed-off
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.
believe long tricks
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.
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.
views wings way
I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view.
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.
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.
competition needs news
My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up.