To consider that individual neurobiology might impact things as rational and complex as, say, stock markets seems rather radical. Yet that’s precisely what trader-turned-neuroscientist Dr John Coates from Cambridge Judge Business School, explores in The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust – an ambitious look at how body chemistry affects high-stakes financial trading, in which Coates sets out to construct – and deconstruct – a “universal biology of risk-taking”
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