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Cass R. Sunstein

Cass R. Sunstein
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Cass R. Sunstein

Cass R. Sunstein is the nation’s most-cited legal scholar who, for the past fifteen years, also has been at the forefront of behavioral economics. From 2009 to 2012, he served as the administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. He is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. His book, Nudge, coauthored with Richard Thaler, was a national bestseller.

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Simpler will be released on April 09, 2013 in Hardcover, eBook
Apr 09, 2013
Simpler is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Apr 09, 2013
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Jan 25, 2013
Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech will be released on June 18, 2008 in eBook
Jun 18, 2008
Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech will be released on June 18, 2008 in eBook
Jun 18, 2008
Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech will be released on June 18, 2008 in eBook
Jun 18, 2008
Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech is now available in eBook
Jun 18, 2008
Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech will be released on February 01, 1995 in Trade Paperback
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Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech is now available in Trade Paperback
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New York Times, April 8, 2013
...advice. (Simplification requires a thorough and pervasive commitment by an organization to empathize, distill and clarify.) Simpler, by Cass R. Sunstein who as the administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs from 2009 to...
FavStocks, December 21, 2012
...s Almanac by Jeff Hirsch Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Timothy Ferriss...
FavStocks, December 17, 2012
...publicity, but has amazing information. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, was rated a Best Book of the Year by The Economist. The book covers all kinds of decision making...
Broker News, December 13, 2012
...Drawing on decades of research in the fields of behavioural science and economics, authors Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein offer a new perspective on preventing the countless mistakes we make—ill-advised personal investments, consumption of...
New York Times, November 26, 2012
...presidents are more likely, other things being equal, to vote for conservative than for liberal outcomes. In 2006, Cass R. Sunstein, now a law professor at Harvard, considered the question in the context of affirmative action. He and several colleagues...
New York Times, November 26, 2012
...presidents are more likely, other things being equal, to vote for conservative than for liberal outcomes. In 2006, Cass R. Sunstein, now a law professor at Harvard, considered the question in the context of affirmative action. He and several colleagues...
Bloomberg, November 23, 2012
...on the broad consensus behind narrow partisan fronts; Jonathan Mahler on Washington’s annoying obsession with the Nationals; Cass R. Sunstein on why regulators are listening to you; Enrique Krauze on hopes for a miracle in Venezuela. To contact the...
Bloomberg, April 15, 2013
...what is being said, and a lot less to the identity of the person who is saying it. (Cass R. Sunstein, the Robert Walmsley University professor at Harvard Law School, is a Bloomberg View columnist. He is the former administrator of the White House...
Bloomberg, April 15, 2013
...what is being said, and a lot less to the identity of the person who is saying it. (Cass R. Sunstein, the Robert Walmsley University professor at Harvard Law School, is a Bloomberg View columnist. He is the former administrator of the White House...
New York Times, April 13, 2013
...should be able to agree that nine billion hours are far too many. Lets do something about it. Cass R. Sunstein is a former head of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and the author, most recently, of “Simpler: The Future of...
New York Times, April 13, 2013
...should be able to agree that nine billion hours are far too many. Lets do something about it. Cass R. Sunstein is a former head of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and the author, most recently, of “Simpler: The Future of...
New York Times, April 13, 2013
...should be able to agree that nine billion hours are far too many. Lets do something about it. Cass R. Sunstein is a former head of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and the author, most recently, of “Simpler: The Future of...
North Jersey.com, April 11, 2013
...Cass R. Sunstein, the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School, writes for Bloomberg News. He is the former administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs...
Washington Post, April 10, 2013
...Over these last few months, the White House has been engaged in a systematic effort to call the GOP’s various bluffs. One bluff was that the problem in American politics was that President Obama didn’t spend enough time directly reaching out to...