Research Catalog

Title

Getting hooked : rationality and addiction / edited by Jon Elster, Ole-Jørgen Skog.

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Elster, Jon, 1940-
• Skog, Ole-Jørgen

Description

ix, 286 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"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.

Subject

• Addicts > Psychology
• Compulsive behavior > Etiology
• Substance abuse > Etiology
• Self-control
• Choice (Psychology)
• Behavior, Addictive
• Choice Behavior
• Compulsive Behavior > etiology
• Substance-Related Disorders > etiology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

0521640083 (hc.)

LCCN

^^^98017266^

OCLC

• 38753049
• SCSB-10260389

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library