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Cass Robert Sunstein FBA (born September 21, 1954) is an American legal scholar, particularly in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, environmen...

Cass Robert Sunstein FBA (born September 21, 1954) is an American legal scholar, particularly in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and law and behavioral economics, and the New York Times best-selling author of The World According to Star Wars (2016) and Nudge (2008). He was the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2012.
As a professor at the University of Chicago Law School for 27 years, he wrote influential works on, among other topics, regulatory and constitutional law. Since leaving the White House, Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School. Studies of legal publications found Sunstein to be the most frequently cited American legal scholar by a wide margin.

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Psychological science has typically conceptualized a good life in terms of either hedonic or eudaimonic well-being. We propose that psychological richness is another, neglected aspect of what people consider a good life. Unlike happy or meaningful lives, psychologically rich lives are best character
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Cass Sunstein 17d

This is such a terrific and important paper

The Secure Act 2.0 is a great start. But it is only just a start. The bipartisan legislation recently signed by President Biden requires that all new retirement savings plans incorporate a savings autopilot starting in 2025. This means that workers are automatically enrolled in their retirement pla
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Cass Sunstein 24d

Important essay: Nudging savings, by the great @shlomobenartzi, with a host of lessons for nudging in general. @LiamDelaney2020 @R_Thaler @dilipsoman

This field study set out to test whether consumers’ history of making decisions in a particular choice context moderated the effectiveness of a nudge intervention to reduce meat consumption. In a Danish hospital canteen that served both staff members and visitors, a combination of nudges (Chef’s rec
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Cass Sunstein 27d

Subtle and very interesting paper on nudging vegetarian choices, with a terrific title.

From one of our wisest and most influential economic thinkers, the only person to serve as Director of the National Economic Council under two Presidents, a profound big-picture vision of why the promotion of dignity should be the singular end goal by which we chart America's economic future When G
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Cass Sunstein 1mos

Economic Dignity - important book by the great @genebsperling

The modern administrative state has changed substantially since Congress enacted the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) in 1946. Yet Congress has done little to
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Cass Sunstein 1mos

Interpreting the APA: A Literature Review - excellent and clarifying essay by @chris_j_walker and Scott MacGuidwin, with an interesting proposed path forward @lsolum

This dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic African American leaders. To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense vs. nonviole
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Cass Sunstein 2mos

Recommended for MLK Day - The Sword and the Shield, a magnificent book by @PenielJoseph

When is it legitimate for a government to ‘nudge’ its citizens, in the sense described by Thaler and Sunstein (2008)? In their original work on the topic, Thaler and Sunstein developed the ‘as judged by themselves’ (or AJBT) test to answer this question (Thaler and Sunstein 2008, p. 5). In a recent
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Cass Sunstein 2mos

Terrific new paper, just out: Nudging for Changing Selves, by the amazing @Wiglet1981

The tight-knit Garvey sisters have always looked out for each other. When their brother-in-law winds up dead, his life insurers launch an investigation to prove malicious intent—and set their sights on the sisters, all of whom had ample reason to kill him.
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Cass Sunstein 2mos

Best show of 2022 (and 2023?): Bad Sisters. @SharonHorgan @EveHewson

In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial calls in football history: With 26 seconds remaining, and trailing by four at the Patriots' one-yard line, he called for a pass instead of a hand off to his star running back. The pass was intercepted and the Seahawks
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Duke’s discussion is full of wisdom and also of fun, warmth, humor and humanity. Her sharp, data-driven analysis comes with a large lesson, which is that losers should be willing to forgive themselves: Sometimes the right play just doesn’t work.

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