Is there such a thing as addiction? -- Gambling in scientific focus -- Picoeconomics, impulsive consumption, and disordered gambling -- Behavioral and psychological investigations of disordered gambling -- The neuroeconomics of addiction -- Addictive gambling as the basic form of addiction -- Clinical evidence and implications -- The microexplanation of disordered gambling
Summary
An analysis of how economic theories can be used to understand disordered and pathological gambling that calls on empirical evidence about behavior and the brain and argues that addictive gambling is the basic form of all addiction
Analysis
NEUROSCIENCE/General
ECONOMICS/General
Notes
"A Bradford book."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-289) and index
