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Cass Sunstein

Cass Robert Sunstein is an American legal scholar who was the administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration. Sunstein co-authored Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness with economist Richard Thaler

February 2024

  • The Libertines: Pete Doherty and Carl Bârat.

    Weekend
    The Libertines’ tortured reunion, Marina Hyde on celebrity-dictator bromances, and the simple trick to enjoying life more – podcast

  • Elia Barbieri

    The big idea
    The big idea: this simple behavioural trick can help you get more out of life

April 2017

  • Protester against Donald Trump, Los Angeles, November 2016

    Challenge everything you think – democracy depends on it

    Cass Sunstein
    Representative government rests on the shared experiences that online media increasingly filter out

March 2015

  • You're given a choice of tips in New york cabs.

    Endless options can be exhausting. We need to know when choice matters

    Cass Sunstein
    Behavioural research suggests that we are prone to inertia, says the author of Nudge – hence we need to nurture our ability to discriminate

April 2014

  • Smog over a California freeway

    There's a backlash against nudging – but it was never meant to solve every problem

    Cass Sunstein
    Cass Sunstein: Sceptics fail to grasp that this is a strategy that improves lives while treating citizens with dignity – unlike coercion
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