Rational addiction https://www.drugtext.org/library/addiction/theory-of-rational-addiction and meta-discussion http://is.gd/1Rf0w re: null hypothesis, stats, cross-field pollination, & lingo

A Theory of Rational Addiction | DrugtextBecker and Murphy's 1988 Journal of Political Economy paper presenting a mathematical model of rational addiction: utility maximization, adjacent complementarity, cold turkey, and price elasticity.DrugText.org
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