"If you've read Nudge and think you fully grasp the concept and its uses, you are mistaken. The new edition significantly deepened my understanding of what nudges are and how they can be employed. It truly is a must-read."â...
Behavioral science is playing an increasing role in public policy, and it is raising new questions about fundamental issues - the role of government, freedom of choice, paternalism, and human welfare. In diverse nations, public officials are using behavio...
An âilluminatingâ study that reveals the different ways social change occursâfor readers of Freakonomics and Thinking, Fast and Slow ( The New York Times )
Many "nudges" aim to make life simpler, safer, or easier for people to navigate, but what do members of the public really think about these policies? Drawing on surveys from numerous nations around the world, Sunstein and Reisch explore whether...
From the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to Star Wars , a revealing account of how todayâs Internet threatens democracy-and what can be done about it
In Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict , Cass R. Sunstein, one of Americaâs best known commentators on our legal system, offers a bold, new thesis about how the law should work in America, arguing that the courts best enable people...
From the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to Star Wars , a revealing account of how today's Internet threatens democracyâand what can be done about it
In recent years, 'nudge units' or 'behavioral insights teams' have been created in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and other nations. All over the world, public officials are using the behavioral sciences to protect the...
Since Americaâs founding, the U.S. Supreme Court had issued a vast number of decisions on a staggeringly wide variety of subjects. And hundreds of judges have occupied the bench. Yet as Cass R. Sunstein, the eminent legal scholar and...
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...
"We cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of extraordinarily sensitive private information is there for the plucking....