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Age of Addiction

How Bad Habits Became Big Business

Bibliographic Data

ID6535705
AuthorsDavid T Courtwright (0000-0002-3865-2261, corresponding author)
Year2019
Pages336
Publication date2019-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueAge of Addiction (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherHarvard University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.4159/9780674239241
OpenAlexW2953666006
Open LibraryOL29813610M
ISBN9780674239241
LanguageEN
Citations received15

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

Addiction · Big business · Business · Political science · Psychiatry · Law · Psychology · Wine Industry and Tourism · Abhängigkeit · Addictive Behavior · Advertising · Capitalism · Compulsive behavior · Consumer behavior · Hedonism · Hedonismus · History · Internal Medicine · Medical · modern · Moral and ethical aspects · Obsessive Behavior · Pathological · Pathological Psychology · Psychological aspects · Sociological Factors · Sucht · Werbung · World history · Zwangshandlung

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Unique citing works15
Citations per year2,5
Citation span2020 - 2026 (7)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 15

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