Article
The Experimental Analysis of Consumption? A Review of Advances in Behavioral Economics: Vol. 3. Substance Use and Abuse
Behavior Analyst
Document Type
Article
Publisher
Association for Behavior Analysis International
Publication Date
1-1-1998
Disciplines
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.
Citation Information
Madden, G. J. (1998). The experimental analysis of consumption? A review of Advances in Behavioral Economics. Vol. 3. Edited by L. Green and J. H. Kagel. The Behavior Analyst, 21, 159-165.
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.