The Experimental Analysis of Consumption? A Review of Advances in Behavioral Economics: Vol. 3. Substance Use and Abuse

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Behavior Analyst

Volume

21

Issue

2

Publisher

Association for Behavior Analysis International

Publication Date

1998

First Page

159

Last Page

165

Abstract

Behavioral economics represents an integration of various microeconomic concepts and measures with methodologies, concepts, and measures employed within the experimental analysis of behavior. Among these integrations, an experimental analysis and measurement of both response rate and consumption are among the many advances in Green and Kagel's Advances in Behavioral Economics (Vol. 3). Behavioral measures of response rate and economic measures of consumption are particularly well suited to the topics in this text--substance use and abuse--because response rate and consumption appear to capture the primary behaviors and outcomes of interest: drug seeking and drug taking, respectively.

Comments

Originally published by the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI). Publisher's PDF and article fulltext available through remote link via PubMed Central. This article appeared in the Behavior Analyst.
Note: Gregory Madden was affiliated with the University of Vermont at time of publication.

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