Choice, Behavioural Economics and Addiction

ISBN: 9780080440569 出版年：2003 页码：459 Pergamon_RM

Choice, Behavioural Economics and Addiction is about the theory, data, and applied implications of choice-based models of substance use and addiction. The distinction between substance use and addiction is important, because many individuals use substances but are not also addicted to them. The behavioural economic perspective has made contributions to the analysis of both of these phenomena and, while the major focus of the book is on theories of addiction, it is necessary also to consider the behavioural economic account of substance use in order to place the theories in their proper context and provide full coverage of the contribution of behavioural economics to this field of study. The book discusses the four major theories of addiction that have been developed in the area of economic science/behavioural economics. They are:hyperbolic discountingmeliorationrelative addictionrational addiction The main objective of the book is to popularise these ideas among addiction researchers, academics and practitioners.