John Coates

El objetivo principal de este libro es destruir definitivamente, sobre la base de las neurociencias, la concepción racionalista según la cual el ser humano toma decisiones mediante el uso exclusivo de una razon completamente separada del cuerpo. A traves de multiples experimentos cientificos ajenos y propios, asi como de ejemplos tomados de deportistas de elite, el autor expone la intervencion de todo el cuerpo en la toma de decisiones en momentos cruciales de riesgo, asi como el nivel preconsciente en el que se producen tales procesos. Luego muestra, de modo igualmente convincente, que lo mismo ocurre en la sala de transacciones financieras. ¡Fascinante! Un experto agente de Wall Street de pronto abandona y entra subrepticiamente en el mundo de la neurociencia para estudiar a sus colegas Amos del Universo en plena accion (Tom Wolfe).

Now shortlisted for the 2012 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award and the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf is a resonant exploration of economic behaviour and its consequences.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 from neuroscientist and former Wall Street trader John Coates shows us the bankers in their natural environment, revealing how their biochemistry has a lasting and significant impact on our economy.We learn how risk stimulates the most primitive part of the bankers brain and how making the deals our bank balances depend on provokes an overwhelming fight-or-flight response. Constant swinging between aggression and apprehension impairs their judgment, causing economic upheaval in the wider world. The transformation between each split-second decision is what Coates calls the hour between dog and wolf, and understanding the biology behind bubbles and crashes may be the key to stabilising the markets.

El objetivo principal de este libro es destruir definitivamente, sobre la base de las neurociencias, la concepción racionalista según la cual el ser humano toma decisiones mediante el uso exclusivo de una razon completamente separada del cuerpo. A traves de multiples experimentos cientificos ajenos y propios, asi como de ejemplos tomados de deportistas de elite, el autor expone la intervencion de todo el cuerpo en la toma de decisiones en momentos cruciales de riesgo, asi como el nivel preconsciente en el que se producen tales procesos. Luego muestra, de modo igualmente convincente, que lo mismo ocurre en la sala de transacciones financieras. ¡Fascinante! Un experto agente de Wall Street de pronto abandona y entra subrepticiamente en el mundo de la neurociencia para estudiar a sus colegas Amos del Universo en plena accion (Tom Wolfe).

Brilliant. David Brooks, The New York TimesA profoundly unconventional book . . . So absorbing that I wound up reading it twice. BloombergFinalist for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the YearWhat happens to your body when you take risks? What happens to it when you make or lose a lot of money? In this startling book, physiologist and former Wall Street trader John Coates vividly illustrates what happens to your body when you engage in risk taking. You transform into a different person, a change Coates refers to as "the hour between dog and wolf." He tells a gripping story of a group of traders caught in a bull market and then a crash. As the excitement builds he takes us inside the traders bodies to see the biology of risk taking at work, a biology shared by athletes, politicians, soldiers - anyone who ventures beyond their safety zone.Coates also discusses how men and women excel at different types of risk; how the stress of failure damages our health; and how we can train our bodies so that they help rather than hinder our risk taking. Revealing the biology behind bubbles and crashes, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf sheds new and surprising light on issues that affect us all.