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Footnotes

1) Book: Ainslie, G. (1992). Picoeconomics: The Strategic Interaction of Successive Motivational States Within the Person

Ainslie, G. (1992). Picoeconomics: The Strategic Interaction of Successive Motivational States Within the Person. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2) Book: Ainslie, G. (2001). Breakdown of Will.

Ainslie, G. (2001). Breakdown of Will. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

3) Paper: Skog, O.-J. (2000). Addicts' choice (Editorial)

Skog, O.-J. (2000). Addicts' choice (Editorial). Addiction, 95(9), 1309-1314.

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Nick Heather explores harmful choices and explains Hyperbolic Discounting