Top 12 Quotes About Behavioural Economics
#1. Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology.
Evan Davis
#2. 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
#3. The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers.
Niall Ferguson
#4. I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother.
Celine Dion
#5. Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.
Ted Nugent
#6. People can be really mean - they say the most vicious things.
Rutina Wesley
#7. Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?
Lillian Hellman
#8. I made a promise. The kind of promise you don't break because, if you break it you've broken part of yourself, maybe the most important part.
Rick Yancey
#9. I don't think people should be able to swear whenever they want. I just don't want the federal government making laws about swearing. We should trust people's own instincts about what is appropriate in any given situation.
Richard Dooling
#11. Even with objective metrics in hand, the argument about which is better or which is worse without first establishing a common standard creates nothing more than debate.
Simon Sinek
#12. Oh, well, that's not bad, I suppose. I mean, I'd prefer devastatingly sophisticated - but almost endearing is more than I could have hoped for under the circumstances.
Jane Costello
