@article{352094,
      recid = {352094},
      author = {Akst, Daniel.},
      title = {We have met the enemy : self-control in an age of excess  /},
      publisher = {Penguin Press,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xiv, 303 p. ;},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {A witty and wide-ranging investigation of the central  problem of our time: how to save ourselves from what we  want. This is journalist Akst's irreverent search for  answers, delving into overeating, overspending,  procrastination, anger, addiction, wayward sexual  attraction and most of the other homely transgressions that  bedevil us daily in a world of freedom, prosperity and  technological empowerment. Akst ransacks history,  literature, psychology, philosophy and economics to alarm,  teach, empower and, at the very least, entertain. Using  self-control as a lens rather than a cudgel, he draws a  vivid picture of the many-sided problem of desire--and  delivers a blueprint for how we can steer shrewdly toward  the wants we most want for ourselves. At stake is not just  our health but our humanity, for what could make us more  fully human than the ability to set aside impulse when we  choose to do so?--From publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/352094},
}