Getting Hooked: Rationality and Addiction

by Elster, Jon
ISBN: 9780521038799
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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.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Elster, Jon
  • ISBN: 9780521038799
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 9.02 x 0.67
  • Number Of Pages: 300
  • Publication Year: 2007
Language: English

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