Midbrain Mutiny: The Picoeconomics and Neuroeconomics of Disordered Gambling: Economic Theory and Cognitive Science

by Rudy E. Vuchinich, Don H. Ross, Carla Sharp, et al.

Book Overview

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.

The explanatory power of economic theory is tested by the phenomenon of irrational consumption, examples of which include such addictive behaviors as disordered and pathological gambling. Midbrain Mutiny...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262517582
• ISBN13: 9780262517584
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Bradford Book
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher