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Rethinking Risk: When Biology Meets Finance
28 February 2013, 5:15 pm – 6:45 pm
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CPNSS LSE Literary Festival Event:
Rethinking Risk: when biology meets finance
Date: Thursday 28 February 2013
Time: 5.15-6.45pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre; New Academic Building
Speakers: John Coates; Dylan Evans
Chair: Paul Ormerod
Homo economicus is dead! Long live; instead; the scientific understanding of how errors cloud thinking and physiology distorts emotions. These exciting new insights can improve all our decision-making; from markets to mating.
John Coates is senior research fellow in neuroscience and finance at the University of Cambridge. He previously worked on Wall Street for Goldman Sachs; and ran a trading desk for Deutsche Bank. In 2004 he returned to Cambridge to research the biology of financial risk-taking. His work has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the Financial Times and been cited in the New York Times; Wall Street Journal; The Economist; New Scientist; Wired and Time.