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Getting Hooked - Rationality and Addiction (Hardcover)
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Getting Hooked - Rationality and Addiction (Hardcover)
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The essays in this volume offer a thorough discussion of the
relationship between addiction and rationality. This book-length
treatment of the subject includes contributions from philosophers,
psychiatrists, neurobiologists, sociologists and economists.
Contrary to the widespread view that addicts are subject to
overpowering and compulsive urges, the authors in this volume
demonstrate that addicts are capable of making choices and
responding to incentives. At the same time they disagree with Gary
Becker's argument that addiction is the result of rational choice.
The volume offers an 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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