Evan Davis
Evan Davis
Evan Harold Davisis an English economist, journalist, and presenter for the BBC...
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth8 April 1962
jobs thinking air
At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think there's quite a bit more we can do.
sleep thinking brain
Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is.
jobs thinking self
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.
gay thinking views
It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it.
mean winning thinking
The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.
thinking engineering bridges
Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes Britain tick - the bridges, tunnels, power and water networks, which bind us together.
thinking world boring
I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better.
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.
thinking practice people
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.
thinking ideas everyday-things
It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.
both epic songs
They both have the epic songs on them,
add punch
Pictures, props, models, demos, all add punch and give a sense of having got some way into the process.
It was just Oceanside doing what Oceanside does. I was one-on-one and did what I had to do and the quarterback got me the ball.
It was just Oceanside doing what Oceanside does, ... I was one-on-one and did what I had to do and the quarterback got me the ball.