Getting Hooked
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Getting Hooked
Rationality and Addiction
Edited by Jon Elster, Ole-Jxrgen Skog
Contributors | Description | Contents
Contributors
Jon Elster, Ole-Jørgen Skog, Karl Ove Moene, Olav Gjelsvik, George Ainslie, Eliot Gardner, James David, Helge Waal, George Loewenstein, Thomas Schelling
Description
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 Ainslies theory of hyperbolic discounting, analyses of social causes and policy implications, and an investigation of the problem of relapse.
Chapter Contents
Preface and acknowledgments; Notes on contributors; Introduction Jon Elster and Ole-Jørgen Skog; 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 Gardner and James David; To legalize or not to legalize: Is that the question? Helge Waal; Rationality, irrationality, and addiction - notes on Beckers and Murphys theory of addiction Ole-Jørgen Skog; Gambling and addiction Jon Elster; A visceral account of addiction George Loewenstein; Epilogue
Getting Hooked
Rationality and Addiction
Edited by Jon Elster, Ole-Jxrgen Skog
Contributors | Description | Contents
Contributors
Jon Elster, Ole-Jørgen Skog, Karl Ove Moene, Olav Gjelsvik, George Ainslie, Eliot Gardner, James David, Helge Waal, George Loewenstein, Thomas Schelling
Description
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 Ainslies theory of hyperbolic discounting, analyses of social causes and policy implications, and an investigation of the problem of relapse.
Chapter Contents
Preface and acknowledgments; Notes on contributors; Introduction Jon Elster and Ole-Jørgen Skog; 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 Gardner and James David; To legalize or not to legalize: Is that the question? Helge Waal; Rationality, irrationality, and addiction - notes on Beckers and Murphys theory of addiction Ole-Jørgen Skog; Gambling and addiction Jon Elster; A visceral account of addiction George Loewenstein; Epilogue