Cass Sunstein
@CassSunstein
Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard; former Administrator, White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs; coauthor, NUDGE.
Manipulation (coming in a few months; link in reply).
A fun interview on my book, How to Become Famous. (Which guarantees: Famous, or your money back.) youtube.com/watch?v=hrASdQ…
Is fame worth pursuing or is it better to pursue meaning? @CassSunstein argued that we should do things that we’re passionate about without expecting our pursuits to bring us acclaim. Full episode: youtu.be/hrASdQHty8Q?si… #psychology #behavioreconomics #politics #podcast
I was intrigued with Cass Sunstein's substack essay, "The Morality of Legality." And so we decided to do a short video discussion of it. @CassSunstein : youtube.com/watch?v=SqlHwZ…
Willingness to Pay (a monograph). #MaybeNotRivetingButStill amazon.com/Willingness-Pa…
Second-Order Decisions, by Edna Ullmann-Margalit and coauthor. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
This was really fun - many thanks to @seize_podcast
On ep 242, we welcome @CassSunstein to discuss fame, the roles of information cascades and reputation cascades in fostering one’s success, whether talent is enough for sustainable success, and how group polarization influences our perceptions. Full ep: youtu.be/hrASdQHty8Q…
On ep 242, we welcome @CassSunstein to discuss fame, the roles of information cascades and reputation cascades in fostering one’s success, whether talent is enough for sustainable success, and how group polarization influences our perceptions. Full ep: youtu.be/hrASdQHty8Q…
Does experiencing an extreme weather disaster make you more likely to accept human-driven climate change? @CassSunstein’s answer in @FT entirely resonates with what climate communication analyst @climategeorge found in 2012 after Hurricane Sandy and insane Texas wildfires… 1/
Good @JustinWorland @time global look at flawed expectations that experience with #climateemergency extreme weather and related disasters will bring conservatives around to CO2 action. Those paying attention to @climategeorge's climate communication work on disasters and culture…
Does catastrophe affect how people think about climate change? (With special reference to the horrors in Texas.) ft.com/content/e61fd6…
Can It Happen Here? @nybooks nybooks.com/articles/2018/…
ON LIBERALISM: IN DEFENSE OF FREEDOM (coming in about a month). amazon.com/Liberalism-Cas…
Act utilitarianism, rule utilitarianism, and rebellion, with special reference to physicists in Germany in the 1930s. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
'The Age of Manipulation with Cass Sunstein' will be on 16th October: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-age-of-m…. "New York Times Bestselling author of Nudge returns to London to discuss the themes of his new book." @CassSunstein
With an important catch or caveat: "A preliminary doff of the cap, or a bow, may not make much sense in the face of palpable mistakes of logic or fact (or in the face of egregious misrepresentations or bad faith)."
The Ethics of Argument (not consistent with the Zeitgeist, I know, I know). @jasonfurman @samuelmoyn papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
The Ethics of Argument (not consistent with the Zeitgeist, I know, I know). @jasonfurman @samuelmoyn papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
Just finished FOX, which is likely to be the best novel of the year, and which should win all the awards. (How to put this? There's a lot going on in it, and there's a lot of humanity in it, in every sense.) @JoyceCarolOates @tylercowen amazon.com/Fox-Novel-Joyc…
When philosophers try to justify discounting the interests of nonhuman animals ‘they are not at their best’ @CassSunstein homes in on a key point philosopher Peter Singer makes in Animal Liberation Now: reason, not tradition, should guide our ethics 👉🏼 …reasoningwithpetersinger.substack.com/p/cass-sunstei…
"Guardate meglio" di Tali Sharot e Cass R. Sunstein: l’abitudine rende ciechi? @CortinaEditore #libro #libri #leggere #book #books #14luglio #14luglio2025 oubliettemagazine.com/2024/07/02/gua…
On Lloyd Weinreb, Dan Meltzer, and Dick Fallon. (Three beloved friends.) @WilliamBaude @lsolum @jacklgoldsmith casssunstein.substack.com/p/on-lloyd-wei…