The economics of addiction: an experimental investigation

Addiction is an ideal puzzle for economic theory: why do most addicts expend resources to acquire their targets of addiction but then incur real costs to try and reduce or limit their consumption of these goods? Furthermore, why is the typical course of addiction characterised by repeated unsuccessf...

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Main Author: Hofmeyr, Andre Karl
Other Authors: Ross, Donald
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Commerce 2020
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/11427/31836

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