This website is dedicated to facilitating the distribution of research relating to Picoeconomics --
a developing framework for the analysis of motivation and motivational conflict.
Picoeconomics has principally been developed by George Ainslie.
George Ainslie is Chief of Psychiatry at the Coatesville Veterans
Affairs Medical Center, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Temple
University. Ainslie originally discovered hyperbolic discounting
as an aspect of a broader empirical principal, Herrnstein's matching law.
George Ainslie
Department of Psychiatry
Coatesville VA Medical Center
Coatesville, PA 19320, USA