A Theory of Rational Addiction
提出理性成瘾理论，认为成瘾是个人在时间上最大化效用的理性计划，分析了过去消费对当前消费的强互补性如何导致不稳定稳态，并解释了戒断、暴食、价格敏感性和焦虑触发成瘾等现象。
The authors develop a theory of rational addiction in which rationality means a consistent plan to maximize utility over time. Strong addiction to a good requires a big effect of past consumption of the good on current consumption. Such powerful complementarities cause some steady states to be unstable. They are an important part of the authors' analysis be-cause even small deviations from the consumption at an unstable steady state can lead to large cumulative rises over time in addictive consumption or to rapid falls in consumption to abstention. Their theory also impies that "cold turkey" is used to end strong addictions, that addicts often go on binges, that addicts respond more to permanent than to temporary changes in prices of addictive goods, and that anxiety and tensions can precipitate an addiction. Copyright 1988 by University of Chicago Press.