The Age of Addiction How Bad Habits Became Big Business
We live in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and shopping to binge eating and opioid abuse. What can we do to resist temptations that insidiously and deliberately rewire our brains? Nothing, David Courtwright says, unless we understand the global enterprises whose “limbic capitalism” creat...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; Massachusetts ; London ; England
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
2019, ©2019
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | We live in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and shopping to binge eating and opioid abuse. What can we do to resist temptations that insidiously and deliberately rewire our brains? Nothing, David Courtwright says, unless we understand the global enterprises whose “limbic capitalism” creates and caters to our bad habits. |
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| Physical Description: | 336 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-23925-8 978-0-674-23924-1 978-0-674-23926-5 |