Getting Hooked

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 Ainslie''s theory of hyperbolic discounting analyses of social causes and policy implications and an investigation of the problem of relapse.