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Getting Hooked|John Elster

Getting Hooked : Rationality and Addiction

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The essays in this volume offer the most thorough and up-to-date discussion available of the relationship between addiction and rationality. This is the only book-length treatment of the subject and includes contributions from philosophers, psychiatrists, neurobiologists, sociologists, and economists. The volume offers an up-to-date exposition of the neurophysiology of addiction, a critical examination of the Becker theory of rational addiction, an argument for a "visceral theory of addiction," a discussion of compulsive gambling as a form of addiction, several discussions of George Ainslie's theory of hyperbolic discounting, analyses of social causes and policy implications, and an investigation of the problem of relapse.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780521640084
  • ISBN-10: 0521640083
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publish Date: March 1999
  • Dimensions: 9.22 x 6.26 x 0.97 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.21 pounds
  • Page Count: 300

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