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=== Le génie de la bête : une révision radicale du capitalisme, 2010 ===
{{citation|citation=Les bactéries, comme vous et moi, sont étonnamment sociales. Elles ne peuvent pas vivre seule (...) L'irrégularité de deux cycles peut expliquer l'apparente imprévisibilité des
|original=Bacteria, like you and me, are astonishingly social. They cannot live alone (...) The irregularity of two overlapping cycles may explain the seeming unpredictability of boom and clash. The spikes and troughs of the two timers may help explain why the Kondratiev wave theory of boom and crash, the hypothesis that technology-waves bring big swings in the financial clock, is only sometimes right. Thanks to internal timers, our biological clock can flick us into panic even when a new technology has many decades to go before it peaks.
If a cycle we've inherited from our bacterial ancestors is, indeed alive in us today, what does that mean for the boom and the bust of 2008 and for the bubbles and busts yet to come ? (...) Back to the embryo, new hordes of explorary neural cell wannabes continued to set off on journeys through the developing you for months after your sixteenth day. If they received enthusiastic signals from the cells of their destination, they took root in the new territory. And they destroyed themselves if they'd ended up in a spot that didn't need them. That's the cycle of exploration and consolidation. That's the pendulum at the heart of boom and crash.
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