Rational choice with passion: Virtue in a model of rational addiction

Review of Social Economy

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-21

  Yuengert, Andrew M ^a  

^a PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aristotle; Internal conflict; Passion goods; Rational addiction; Reason; Virtue

Indexed keywords

EID: 6344268553     PISSN: 00346764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00346760010017492     Document Type: Article

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