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Martin Scorsese's ' The Wolf of Wall Street' exposes the excesses of the trading floor
- but if you want to know more about the biology that drives this risky business, neuroscientist John Coates can explain it all. Shortlisted for the 2012 Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award & the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, this startling & unconventional book from neuroscientist & former Wall Street trader John Coates shows us the bankers in their natural environment, revealing how their biochemistry has a lasting & significant impact on our economy. We learn how risk stimulates the most primitive part of the banker's brain & how making the deals our bank balances depend on provokes an overwhelming fight-or-flight response. Constant swinging between aggression & 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 & wolf, & understanding the biology behind bubbles & crashes may be the key to stabilising the markets.