Akst is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania who spent 13 years in Los Angeles before moving to the Hudson Valley, where he lives with his wife and two sons.
Preface | p. xi |
A Democracy of Excess | p. 1 |
Sickening Excess | p. 17 |
On Having Yourself Committed | p. 32 |
The Cost of Good Inventions | p. 45 |
The Perils of Prosperity | p. 55 |
Self-control and Social Change | p. 70 |
The Greek Way | p. 81 |
The Marshmallow Test | p. 96 |
The Seesaw Struggle | p. 110 |
Let My People Go | p. 121 |
The Intimate Contest | p. 132 |
The Mind-Body Problem | p. 146 |
Self-control, Free Will, and Other Oxymorons | p. 161 |
Odysseus and the Pigeons | p. 175 |
Crimes of Passion | p. 192 |
Addiction, Compulsion, and Choice | p. 203 |
Tomorrow Is Another Day | p. 212 |
Cutting Loose | p. 227 |
Government and Self-government | p. 239 |
Being Your Own Godfather | p. 251 |
Carpe Diem | p. 261 |
Acknowledgments | p. 277 |
Notes | p. 279 |
Index | p. 293 |
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