Getting hooked
rationality and addiction
By Jon Elster
"Getting hooked" was published by Cambridge University Press in 1999 - Cambridge, UK, it has 286 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Getting hooked” Metadata:
- Title: Getting hooked
- Author: Jon Elster
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 286
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: 1999
- Publish Location: Cambridge, UK
“Getting hooked” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Etiology - Compulsive behavior - Psychology - Self-control - Choice (Psychology) - Addicts - Substance abuse - Sucht - Compulsieve gedragsstoornissen - Choix (Psychologie) - Rationaliteit - Choice Behavior - Comportement compulsif - Addictive Behavior - Verslaving - Polytoxicomanie - Substance-Related Disorders - Zelfcontrole - Psychologie - Keuzegedrag - Rationalität - Maîtrise de soi - Étiologie - Dépendants
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: ix, 286 p. :
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL357370M - OL19414354W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 38753049
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 98017266
- ISBN-13: 9780521640084 - 9781139173223
- ISBN-10: 0521640083
- All ISBNs: 0521640083 - 9780521640084 - 9781139173223
AI-generated Review of “Getting hooked”:
"Getting hooked" Description:
The Open Library:
"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."--BOOK JACKET. "In tackling the critical issue of voluntary self-destructive behavior from many perspectives, the book will be an important resource for philosophers, psychologists, psychiatrists, economists, and sociologists."--Jacket.
Open Data:
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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