Is Addiction "Rational"? Theory and Evidence

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DOI10.1162/003355301753265570zbMath1004.91508OpenAlexW2168209452MaRDI QIDQ2765532

Botond Kőszegi, Jonathan Gruber

Publication date: 24 January 2002

Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.nber.org/papers/w7507.pdf




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