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Title: The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust
Publisher: - -
Publication Date: 2012
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0007413513
ISBN 13: 9780007413515
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

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HardCover. Pub Date :2012-05-10 Pages: 288 Language: English Publisher: Fourth Estate As scandal and the aftershocks of the crash rock the financial world. former Wall Street trader John Coates investigates why our financiers are driven to take risks.Now shortlisted for the 2012 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award and the Wellcome Trust Book Prize. this startling and unconventional book sees neuroscientist and former Wall Street trader John Coates explain something we have long suspected: that we think with our body as . well as our brain And this only intensifies when we take risks;.. at work. in sport and on the financial markets Making and losing money provokes an overwhelming biological response. and this can alter the way we behave Could this bodily turmoil lead to the kind of irrational behaviour that so regularly upsets the global economy...

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John Coates is a senior research fellow in neuroscience and finance at the University of Cambridge. He previously worked on Wall Street for Goldman Sachs, and ran a trading desk for Deutsche Bank. In 2004 he returned to Cambridge to research the biology of financial risk-taking. His work has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the Financial Times and been cited in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, New Scientist, Wired and Time.

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