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

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MIT Press, 2008 - Business & Economics - 301 pages

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.

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Gambling in Scientific Focus
19
Picoeconomics Impulsive Consumption and Disordered
43
Behavioral and Psychological Investigations of Disordered
95
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Don Ross is Professor of Economics and Dean of Commerce at the University of Cape Town, andResearch Fellow in the Center for Economic Analysis of Risk at Georgia State University.. He is theauthor of Economic Theory and Cognitive Science: Microexplanation (MIT Press,2005), companion volume to Midbrain Mutiny.

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