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Getting hooked
Getting hooked: rationality and addiction
edited by Jon Elster, Ole-Jørgen Skog
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; Cambridge University Press, 1999.
ISBN: 0521640083   LCC: RC533   Edition: (hbk.)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Addiction and social interaction / Karl Ove Moene -- Addiction,
weakness of the will, and relapse / Olav Gjelsvik -- The dangers of
willpower / George Ainslie -- The neurobiology of chemical addiction
/ Eliot L. Gardner and James David -- To legalize or not to legalize:
is that the question? / Helge Waal -- Rationality, irrationality, and
addiction - notes on Becker's and Murphy's theory of addiction /
Ole-Jørgen Skog -- Gambling and addiction / Jon Elster -- A visceral
account of addiction / George Loewenstein -- Epilogue: rationally
coping with lapses from rationality / Thomas Schelling.

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LCC Number: RC533

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: ix, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Edition Info: (hbk.)

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