The Economic Analysis of Substance Use and Abuse: An Integration of Econometric and Behavioral Economic Research edited by F.J. Chaloupka, M. Grossman, W.K. Bickel and H. Safer. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1999. No. of pages 383. ISBN 0-226-10047-2.

Frank J. Chaloupka, Michael Grossman, Wa

Frank J. Chaloupka, Michael Grossman, Warren K. Bickel and Henry Saffer (eds), The economic analysis of substance use and abuse: An integration of econometric and behavioral economic research (National Bureau of Economic Research), University of Chicago Press, 1999, 352 pp., ISBN 0226100472, $53.00.

✍ John L. Fiedler 📂 Article 📅 2002 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 33 KB

It was once generally believed that economic analysis had little to contribute to discussions about controlling or treating substance use and abuse because the initiation and level of use of addictive substances were thought not to be influenced by market forces. In particular, it was thought that t