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Best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein examines how to avoid worst-case scenarios
The world is increasingly confronted with new challenges related to climate change, globalization, disease, and technology. Governments are faced with having to decide how much risk is worth taking, how much destruction and death can be tolerated, and how much money should be invested in the hopes of avoiding catastrophe. Lacking full information, should decision-makers...
2) On Freedom
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Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School, where he is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy. From 2009 to 2012, he led the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. His many books include the New York Times bestsellers Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler) and The World According to Star Wars. The...
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Las decisiones que tomas no responden sólo a tu voluntad sino que reflejan las influencias, sutiles o burdas, del entorno social en que vives: unas veces para evitar la confrontación, otras para no equivocarte, a menudo porque así se consolidan los nexos con gente a la que estimas.
La conformidad es la respuesta, más o menos automática, muchas veces inconsciente, con que nos amoldamos a las opiniones de los demás, a sus expectativas y sus preferencias....
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"Son demasiados los ciudadanos que no tienen presente la medida en que su propio bienestar es producto de un sistema de gobierno que los beneficia todos los días", escribe Cass R. Sunstein, uno de los más respetados y prolíficos constitucionalistas de nuestro tiempo, quien sitúa su análisis en los Estados Unidos, pero ahonda sobre los problemas teóricos y prácticos de la aplicación de los derechos sociales y económicos en cualquier democracia.
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La libertad parece un asunto simple: todas nuestras elecciones han de ser válidas si conducen a nuestro propio bienestar. Pero incurrimos en decisiones que pueden dañarnos: fumar, llevar una dieta desbalanceada, gastar en cosas innecesarias…, actos de disfrute cuyas consecuencias pueden ser lamentables. Cass R. Sunstein considera que, para ponerle un alto a las malas elecciones, sólo hace falta un "empujoncito": sea en la forma de programas de...
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Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University. His previous books include Republic.com 2.0 (Princeton), Infotopia, and Simpler. He is also the author, with Richard Thaler, of Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness.
Many of us are being misled. Claiming to know dark secrets about public officials, hidden causes of the current economic situation, and nefarious plans and plots, those who...
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"Listed on the 2017 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List" Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School. His many books include the New York Times bestsellers Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler) and The World According to Star Wars. He lives in Concord, Massachusetts.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to Star Wars,...
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"Winner of the 2009 PROSE Award in Law & Legal Studies, Association of American Publishers" Cass R. Sunstein is currently on leave from his position as the Felix Frankfurter Professor at Harvard Law School to serve as Administrator of the Office of Regulation and Information Policy in the Obama administration. His many books include Republic.com 2.0 (Princeton), Worst-Case Scenarios, and Nudge.
The future of the U.S. Supreme Court hangs in the balance...
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Why are group decisions so hard?
Since the beginning of human history, people have made decisions in groups-first in families and villages, and now as part of companies, governments, school boards, religious organizations, or any one of countless other groups. And having more than one person to help decide is good because the group benefits from the collective knowledge of all of its members, and this results in better decisions. Right?
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As Benjamin Franklin famously put it, Americans have a republic, if we can keep it. Preserving the Constitution and the democratic system it supports is the public's responsibility. One route the Constitution provides for discharging that duty-a route rarely traveled-is impeachment.Cass R. Sunstein provides a succinct citizen's guide to an essential tool of self-government. He illuminates the constitutional design behind impeachment and emphasizes...
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How we became so burdened by red tape and unnecessary paperwork, and why we must do better.
We've all had to fight our way through administrative sludge - filling out complicated online forms, mailing in paperwork, standing in line at the motor vehicle registry. This kind of red tape is a nuisance, but, as Cass Sunstein shows in Sludge, it can also impair health, reduce growth, entrench poverty, and exacerbate inequality. Confronted by sludge, people...
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Rumours are as old as human history, but with the rise of the internet it's now possible to spread stories about anyone, anywhere, instantly. In the 2008 US election many Americans believed Barack Obama was a Muslim. The conspiracy theory book 9/11: The Big Lie has become a bestseller. Hearsay has fueled economic boom and bust - so much so that in many places it's now a crime to circulate false rumours about banks. Why do ordinary people accept rumours,...
13) Liars
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A powerful analysis of why lies and falsehoods spread so rapidly now, and how we can reform our laws and policies regarding speech to alleviate the problem.
Lying has been with us from time immemorial. Yet today is different - and in many respects worse. All over the world, people are circulating damaging lies, and these falsehoods are amplified as never before through powerful social media platforms that reach billions. Liars are saying that COVID-19...
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Is the modern administrative state illegitimate? Unconstitutional? Unaccountable? Dangerous? Intolerable? American public law has long been riven by a persistent, serious conflict, a kind of low-grade cold war, over these questions.
Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule argue that the administrative state can be redeemed, as long as public officials are constrained by what they call the morality of administrative law. Law and Leviathan elaborates a number...