Why read Choice Over Time?

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Many of our most urgent national problems suggest a widespread lack of concern for the future. Alarming economic conditions, such as low national savings rates, declining corporate investment in long-term capital projects, and ballooning private and public debt are matched by such social ills as diminished educational achievement, environmental degradation,…

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Environmental degradation

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Self-help

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1 author picked Choice Over Time as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Chrisoula Andreou

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This collection considers an array of important issues associated with choice over time, both theoretical and practical.

Some highlights include: enlightening and nuanced discussion of the idea that we discount future benefits in a way that leads to fragmentation and predictable failures to follow through on prudent plans; the application of theoretical models of choice toward illuminating phenomena such as addiction and savings behavior; and insights regarding the nature of self-control.

Notably, this is an interdisciplinary volume in which philosophical arguments are intertwined with psychological, economic, and experimental research—an approach that I find extremely fruitful and that highlights that powerful…

From Chrisoula's list on essay collections wth themes being tempted or torn.