Bøger af John Coates

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 banker's 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.

In early July 2005 the International Olympic Committee announced the city that was to host the 2012 Summer Olympics. The following day that same city suffered four terror attacks. The world's attention was on London for conflicting reasons. That same month John Coates' world was turned upside down when he received a simple text message containing news totally unconnected to that being played out on the world's stage. While struggling to come to terms with his Mother's medical diagnosis, old family issues previously thought forgotten and buried once again rise to the surface seeking for a resolution. After they are gently swept under the carpet yet again, the author discovers that a routine medical check-up of his own has greater consequences than at first thought. The subsequent events have an effect on his immediate family long after the 2012 Summer Olympics. John Coates shares his emotional roller-coaster journey of how cancer had a devastating impact on his family and friends, on how attempts to prepare for the worst did not go to plan and describes that when things couldn't go from bad to worse...they did. As if coping with a death in the family after a long illness isn't enough of a stressful situation, John's wife embarks on IVF treatment and they also decide to move house. Are they trying to overcome all challenges in life in one fell swoop? Dealing with life changing events in your own country and in your own language is more than enough for many people. It's therefore surprising that they didn't give up as many of the events take place in their adopted country of residence of Spain. John Coates takes the reader with him on his personal journey through a period of 18 months in his life. But he doesn't let us off lightly as occasional flashbacks and dark scenarios of his childhood puts the current events into context. Told with humour and sadness, out of the doom and gloom there is happiness ... but it doesn't come easy.

The forces behind an economic and political crisis in the makingA “problem of twelve” arises when a small number of institutions acquire the means to exert outsized influence over the politics and economy of a nation.The Big Four index funds of Vanguard, State Street, Fidelity, and BlackRock control more than twenty percent of the votes of S&P 500 companies—a concentration of power that’s unprecedented in America. Then there’s the rise of private equity funds such as the Big Four of Apollo, Blackstone, Carlyle and KKR, which has amassed $2.7 trillion of assets, and are eroding the legitimacy and accountability of American capitalism, not by controlling public companies, but by taking them over entirely, and removing them from public discourse and public scrutiny.This quiet accumulation in the last few decades represents a dramatic transformation in how the American economy operates—a sea change that few of us have noticed and all of us need to consider. Harvard law professor John Coates forcefully calls our attention to what is sure to be one of the major political and economic issues of our time.

After Pleasures on the Periphery (2022: Cuvillier), It wasn¿t a Nightmare is the second collection of authentic and at times surreal observations of life and work in the provinces and also some of the capitals of Poland, Hungary, Finland, England, Scotland, Ireland, Spain and the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). Following the snapshot-technique of Jack London, Laurie Lee and Christopher Isherwood, the vignette-like stories aim to reflect on the harshness and then again rare sudden beauty of life to be encountered in every corner of the world where human beings come together in very different contexts. In the background, the narrator keeps asking the question of what is the ¿truth¿ regarding the sociological mechanisms and driving forces in the fabric of these contexts.As in the first volume, this book includes a number of original photographs from the narrator¿s own private collections.

PLEASURES on the PERIPHERY is a collection of authentic, occasionally surreal observations of life and work in the provinces of Sicily and People¿s Hungary 1966-1970. The narrator was short of money, trying to survive like everyone else, very much out on his own ¿ but through his work in a position to encounter a wide cross-section of society. Twenty years later he was one of a team assisting in the local transition from communism to democracy (¿Hello What?¿) in the distant south of Hungary, supported by an EC grant. The concept of ¿socialism with a human face¿ pervades many of the descriptions included in this book and acts as a recurrent theme in its vignettes.The book includes a number of original photographs, and begins and ends with excursions to two non-peripheral places, London and the cloudy south-west of Poland.

Kipling's use of superior knowledge as the basis for deception and practical jokes is discussed in this book within the wider social context of his time. His writing is examined for what it reveals about a complex, self-conscious but powerful range of values, including his criticisms of British colonial rule and Victorian practices.

How can mainstream Western social work learn from and in turn help advance indigenous practice? This title discusses some of the significant global trends and issues relating to indigenous and cross-cultural social work. It identifies the ways in which indigenization is shaping professional social work practice and education.

In this volume, Indigenous and non-Indigenous social work scholars examine local cultures, beliefs, values, and practices as central to decolonization. Supported by a growing interest in spirituality and ecological awareness in international social work, they interrogate trends, issues, and debates in Indigenous social work theory.

The author is one of the most respected - and hardest working - comic artists of the last sixty years, with a career spanning the Golden Age of comics through the Modern era. This title focuses on his works.

John Coates examines the thought of Moore, Ramsey, Wittgenstein and Keynes in this important study. He investigates the importance for the social sciences of the ideas developed by these Cambridge philosophers between the two World Wars, and offers evidence that there was far closer collaboration between them than has been supposed.

Written by two leading workers in the field, this brief but elegant book presents in full detail the simplest proof of the "main conjecture" for cyclotomic fields. From the reviews: "The text is written in a clear and attractive style, with enough explanation helping the reader orientate in the midst of technical details."