| Getting Hooked: Rationality and Addiction Contributor(s): Elster, John (Author), Elster, Jon (Editor), Skog, Ole-Jorgen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521640083 ISBN-13: 9780521640084 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1999 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychopathology - Addiction - Psychology | Physiological Psychology - Medical | Neurology |
| Dewey: 616.86 |
| LCCN: 98-17266 |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.26" W x 9.22" (1.21 lbs) 300 pages |
