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