The Hour Between Dog and Wolf

By John Coates,

Book cover of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: How Risk Taking Transforms Us, Body and Mind

Book description

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…

When you buy books, we may earn a commission that helps keep our lights on (or join the rebellion as a member).

Why read it?

1 author picked The Hour Between Dog and Wolf as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

No, this book is not by John Coates the corporate law professor. It's by another John Coates, who was a Wall Street trader and became a neuroscientist (!).

The descriptions of the physiology of risk-taking are not only fascinating in their own right but also deeply intuitive, and should be of enormous help to regulators trying to address banker misbehavior. They give the lie to the idea that simple stories—people are good or bad! It’s all about incentives!can do a good job in explaining what happened.

This book makes clear that we have to understand the role of…

If you love The Hour Between Dog and Wolf...

Ad

Book cover of The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

The Coaching Habit By Michael Bungay Stanier,

The coaching book that's for all of us, not just coaches.

It's the best-selling book on coaching this century, with 15k+ online reviews. Brené Brown calls it "a classic". Dan Pink said it was "essential".

It is practical, funny, and short, and "unweirds" coaching. Whether you're a parent, a teacher,…

Want books like The Hour Between Dog and Wolf?

Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 84 books like The Hour Between Dog and Wolf.

Browse books like The Hour Between Dog and Wolf

Book cover of The Big Short
Book cover of The Billionaire's Apprentice
Book cover of The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History

Share your top 3 reads of 2024!

And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.

1,585

readers submitted
so far, will you?

Ad

📚 If you like The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, you might also like...

From One Cell By Ben Stanger,

Book cover of From One Cell: A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine

Everybody knows that all animals—bats, bears, sharks, ponies, and people—start out as a single cell: the fertilized egg. But how does something no bigger than the period at the end of this sentence give rise to the remarkable complexity of each of these creatures?

FROM ONE CELL is a dive…

What Walks This Way By Sharman Apt Russell,

Book cover of What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs

Nature writer Sharman Apt Russell tells stories of her experiences tracking wildlife—mostly mammals, from mountain lions to pocket mice—near her home in New Mexico, with lessons that hold true across North America. She guides readers through the basics of identifying tracks and signs, revealing a landscape filled with the marks…

5 book lists we think you will like!

Interested in or by neuroscientist, biology, and philosophy?

Biology 224 books
Philosophy 1,790 books