Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business Audiobook (Free)

We live in an age group of addiction, from compulsive gaming and shopping to binge eating and opioid abuse. Sugar is often as habit-forming as cocaine, research workers tell us, and social media apps are hooking our children. But what can we do to withstand temptations that insidiously and deliberately rewire our brains? Nothing at all, David Courtwright says, unless we understand the annals and character from the global businesses that induce and cater to our negative traits. The Age of Cravings chronicles the triumph of “limbic capitalism,” the growing network of competitive businesses targeting the brain pathways responsible for feeling, inspiration, and long-term memory. We see its success in Steve Wynn’s groundbreaking casinos and Purdue Pharma’s pain pills, in McDonald’s engineered burgers and Tencent video gaming from China. All capitalize around the ancient quest to find, cultivate, and refine fresh and habituating pleasures. Courtwright retains out hope that limbic capitalism could be contained by arranged opposition from over the politics range. Progressives, nationalists, and traditionalists been employed by jointly against the purveyors of obsession before. They could do it again.