Picoeconomics and George Ainslie

Main Website: http://picoeconomics.org/

• specious reward, Psychological Bulletin(1975)
• A behavioral economic approach to the defense mechanisms: Freud’s energy theory revisited, Social Science Information(1982)
• Beyond microeconomics: conflict among interest in a multiple self as a determinant of value In J. Elster (ed.), The Multiple Self, Cambridge University Press, pp. 133-175, 1986
• Freud and Picoeconomics, Behaviorism(1989)
• Derivation of "rational" economic behavior, American Economic Review(1991)

• Précis of Breakdown of Will, 2001
• Précis of Breakdown of Will, Behavioral and Brain Sciences(2005)