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¿ creates and caters to our bad habits.

About the author

David T. Courtwright is Presidential Professor Emeritus at the University of North Florida and the author of Dark Paradise: A History of Opiate Addiction in America and Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World (both from Harvard). He was an inaugural recipient of a grant from the highly competitive NEH Public Scholar Program and is a regular media commentator on the history of addiction.

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.

Product details

• Authors: David T Courtwright, David T. Courtwright
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780674737372
• ISBN: 978-0-674-73737-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Political Ideologies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, HISTORY / World, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, General & world history, Economic history, Behavioural economics, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, General and world history, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Political ideologies and movements, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Social & Behavioral