Getting Hooked: Rationality and Addiction by Jon Elster

by Jon Elster

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. 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.

Genres: Essays

Paperback

First published March 13, 1999

About the author

Jon Elster ، born 22 February 1940, Oslo) is a Norwegian social and political theorist who has authored works in the philosophy of social science and rational choice theory. He is also a notable proponent of analytical Marxism, and a critic of neoclassical economics and public choice theory, largely on behavioral and psychological grounds.

In 2016, he was awarded the 22nd Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science for his contributions to political science.