The Biology of Boom and Bust

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jun 20, 2012

John Coates, senior research fellow in neuroscience and finance at the University of Cambridge, explains what the laws of financial boom and bust—and risk-taking in general—have to do with testosterone. In The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust, he explains his research and offers lessons from the new field—the biology of risk.

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