Contents
Contributors
Preface
Part One: Historical Overview
1. The Fall and Rise of Psychological Explanations in the Economics of Intertemporal Choice - George Loewenstein
2. Intertemporal Choice and Political Thought - Jon Elster
Part Two: General Perspectives
3. Hyperbolic Discounting - George Ainslie and Nick Haslam
4. Irrationality, Impulziveness, and Selfishness as Discount Reversal Effects - Howard Rachlin and Andres Raineri
5. Anomalies in Intertemporal Choice: Evidence and an Interpretation - George Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec
6. Delay of Gratification in Children - Walter Mischel, Yuichi Shoda, and Monica L. Rodriguez
Part Three: Self-Control
7. Self Command: A New Discipline - T. C. Schelling
8. Self-Control - George Ainslie and Nick Haslam
Part Four: Internalities
9. Utility from Memory and Anticipation - Jon Elster and George Loewenstein
10. Melioration - Richard J. Herrnstein and Drazen Prelec
11. The Role of Moral Sentiments in the Theory of Intertemporal Choice - Robert H. Frank
Part Five: Applications and Extensions
12. Mental Accounting, Saving, and Self-Control - Hersh M. Shefrin and Richard H. Thaler
13. A Theory of Addiction - Richard J. Herrnstein and Drazen Prelec
14. Rational Addiction and the Effect of Price on Consumption - Gary S. Becker, Michael Grossman, and Kevin M. Murphy
15. Frames of Reference and the Intertemporal Wage Profile - Robert H. Frank
Index