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Getting Hooked: Rationality and Addiction

Getting Hooked: Rationality and Addiction

Elster, Jon
Skog, Ole-Jorgen

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Medical ReferenceAddiction & RecoveryGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0521038790
ISBN13: 9780521038799
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 16 2007
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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