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New paper: DOES AI HAVE RIGHTS?
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Does AI Have Rights?
Does Artificial Intelligence (AI) have rights? A plausible answer depends on the answer to another question: Is AI capable of experiencing emotions, such as sad
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6481938
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Social media use and well-being.
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Social media use is tied to well-being, according to the new World Happiness Report | CNN
Social media isn’t good or bad — the latest World Happiness Report suggests well-being depends on how much you use it, what you do on it and what platforms you’re on.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/20/health/social-media-impact-world-happiness-report-wellness
7 days ago
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A verdict from Claude.AI on my two coming books, one of which is on willingness to pay, one of which is on animal welfare: "Both books are better when Sunstein writes about his dogs than when he doesn't."
7 days ago
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reposted by
Pat Sobkowski
8 days ago
@jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social
and
@casssunstein.bsky.social
on separation of powers.
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The Most Dangerous Branch
Podcast Episode · Executive Functions Chat · March 20 · 42m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/executive-functions-chat/id1813165840?i=1000756328177
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Island Press
14 days ago
In How to Interpret the Constitution, New York Times bestselling author
@casssunstein.bsky.social
makes a timely and powerful argument for rethinking how the U.S. Constitution is interpreted. Now available in
#paperback
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#USHistory
#PoliSci
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reposted by
Better Food Foundation
11 days ago
🎉 Exciting news! We're welcoming Cass Sunstein to the Better Food Foundation Board of Advisors! Cass is a University Professor at Harvard Law School, founder of Harvard's Program on Behavioral Economics, and co-author of Nudge — the landmark book that informs our work. Welcome Cass💚
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My chapter in
@worldhappiness.report
, just out.
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Social media, wasting time, and product traps
The World Happiness Report is published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, in partnership with Gallup, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and an independent ed...
https://www.worldhappiness.report/ed/2026/social-media-wasting-time-and-product-traps/
11 days ago
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Memo to Self.
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How to Disagree
How should one respond to an argument that one believes to be wrong, or egregiously wrong? What is the proper tone? Does disagreement have an internal morality?
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5537678
11 days ago
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Lawrence Solum
12 days ago
Sunstein on Liberalism and AI Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard Law School; Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)) has posted Liberal AI on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Can AI be liberal? In what sense? One answer points to the liberal insistence on freedom of choice, understood as a product of…
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Sunstein on Liberalism and AI
Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard Law School; Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)) has posted Liberal AI on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Can AI be liberal? In what sense? One answer points to the liberal insistence on freedom of choice, understood as a product of the commitment to personal autonomy and individual dignity. Mill and Hayek are of course defining figures here, emphasizing the epistemic foundations for freedom of choice.
https://legaltheoryblog.com/2026/03/17/sunstein-on-liberalism-and-ai/
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ANIMALS MATTER. Coming next year.
www.amazon.co.uk/Animals-Matt...
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Animals Matter: The Case for a Kinder World
Animals Matter: The Case for a Kinder World : Sunstein, Cass R.: Amazon.co.uk: Books
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Animals-Matter-Case-Kinder-World/dp/0691289034/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1GQV4KPNQ4866&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.prQI3Nmk-qYX5cPiII0weA.wn8QHH3Tu2csu42U4Pry5tIjP2iFMenQdFwGHeQ-YJE&dib_tag=se&keywords=sunstein+animals+matter&qid=1773680516&sprefix=sunstein+animals+matter%2Caps%2C283&sr=8-1
13 days ago
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reposted by
Princeton University Press
14 days ago
In How to Interpret the Constitution, New York Times bestselling author
@casssunstein.bsky.social
makes a timely and powerful argument for rethinking how the U.S. Constitution is interpreted. Now available in
#paperback
! Learn more:
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
#History
#USHistory
#PoliSci
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Lawrence Solum
15 days ago
Legal Theory Bookworm: “Decisions and Social Norms” by Ullmann-Margalit & Sunstein The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Decisions and Social Norms by by Edna Ullmann-Margalit & Cass R. Sunstein. Here is a description: This pathbreaking book casts new light on how to handle life’s most difficult…
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Legal Theory Bookworm: “Decisions and Social Norms” by Ullmann-Margalit & Sunstein
The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Decisions and Social Norms by by Edna Ullmann-Margalit & Cass R. Sunstein. Here is a description: This pathbreaking book casts new light on how to handle life’s most difficult decisions. Edna Ullmann-Margalit and Cass R. Sunstein examine the role of social norms in creating both stability and instability, while offering an in-depth exploration of why people choose not to choose.
https://legaltheoryblog.com/2026/03/14/legal-theory-bookworm-decisions-and-social-norms-by-ullmann-margalit-sunstein/
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MIT Press
16 days ago
"This is a work that we need professional politicians, regardless of their country, to think about and internalise." —
@financialtimes.com
In "Separation of Powers," Cass Sunstein explains a balancing act that has puzzled the greatest adepts in political science:
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Coming in the fall (and guaranteed to increase happiness).
www.amazon.co.uk/Price-Happin...
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Amazon.co.uk
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Price-Happiness-Behavioral-Economics-Willingness/dp/1009843656/ref=sr_1_1?crid=FJCC70M6J8YO&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.NRVAhEUtteRgTvm49PwXuk8sV2VSjna4jQnS6APT8brGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.sB1tshJxDTxIT0-cG1eseGy6wf-vm7FYaXp-yx60Ajg&dib_tag=se&keywords=sunstein+price+of+happiness&qid=1773523443&sprefix=sunstein+price+of+happiness%2Caps%2C330&sr=8-1
15 days ago
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A Canticle for Leibowitz.
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
On Unrecognized Truths and Lost Traditions
https://casssunstein.substack.com/p/a-canticle-for-leibowitz
18 days ago
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Edward Elgar Publishing
19 days ago
⬅️➡️ Out Now: Decisions and Social Norms by Edna Ullmann-Margalit and Cass R. Sunstein (
@casssunstein.bsky.social
) Learn more:
www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...
This pathbreaking book casts new light on how to handle life’s most difficult decisions.
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Out today!
@elgarpublishing.bsky.social
www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/dec...
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Decisions and Social Norms
This pathbreaking book casts new light on how to handle life’s most difficult decisions. Edna Ullmann-Margalit and Cass R. Sunstein examine the role of social norms in creating both stability and inst...
https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/decisions-and-social-norms-9781035397464.html
19 days ago
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The Cost-Benefit State Is Not Flourishing (very sad to say).
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The Cost-Benefit State Is Not Flourishing
Alas Alas Alas
https://casssunstein.substack.com/p/the-cost-benefit-state-is-not-flourishing
22 days ago
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Publication day: This coming Tuesday.
www.amazon.com/Decisions-So...
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Decisions and Social Norms
Amazon.com: Decisions and Social Norms: 9781035397464: Ullmann-Margalit, Edna, Sunstein, Cass R.: Books
https://www.amazon.com/Decisions-Social-Norms-Edna-Ullmann-Margalit/dp/1035397463/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2F4PMIYJ1YD1J&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.EBmiH2qGKlb7bqZjhPVk3S6ql19e-K8H6IY6n_2j_7_GjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.AtHhQpRbhVrOmrSLiY_mUQkGsKgs4AnEMiLpcNWaEVA&dib_tag=se&keywords=edna+ullmann-margalit+sunstein&qid=1762563531&sprefix=sunstein+edna%2Caps%2C108&sr=8-2
22 days ago
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New book announcement!
@cfcamerer.bsky.social
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The Price of Happiness | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/economics/public-economics-and-public-policy/price-happiness-behavioral-economics-and-willingness-pay?format=HB&isbn=9781009843652
23 days ago
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reposted by
MIT Press
24 days ago
Join
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at
@politicsprose.bsky.social
for a talk on "Separation of Powers: How to Preserve Liberty in Troubled Times." 📆 Sat, March 14th 🕓 3:00 PM 📍5015 Connecticut Ave NW, D.C. (previous event rescheduled due to weather) Link for details:
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On Preferring People to Algorithms.
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On preferring people to algorithms - Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
This study explores preferences for algorithmic or human decision-making across six countries using nationally representative samples. Participants evaluated ten decision scenarios, typically involvin...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11166-025-09466-6
24 days ago
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Out in one week.
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Decisions and Social Norms
Amazon.com: Decisions and Social Norms: 9781035397464: Ullmann-Margalit, Edna, Sunstein, Cass R.: Books
https://www.amazon.com/Decisions-Social-Norms-Edna-Ullmann-Margalit/dp/1035397463/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2F4PMIYJ1YD1J&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.EBmiH2qGKlb7bqZjhPVk3S6ql19e-K8H6IY6n_2j_7_GjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.AtHhQpRbhVrOmrSLiY_mUQkGsKgs4AnEMiLpcNWaEVA&dib_tag=se&keywords=edna+ullmann-margalit+sunstein&qid=1762563531&sprefix=sunstein+edna%2Caps%2C108&sr=8-2
26 days ago
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New paper: Five Objections to Commodification
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27 days ago
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This is the best Substack ever. By far.
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This Is the Best Substack Ever
By A Large Margin
https://casssunstein.substack.com/p/this-is-the-best-substack-ever
28 days ago
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Proximity Bias.
@cfcamerer.bsky.social
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Proximity bias - Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
It is rational to care about proximity; closer is often better. Proximity bias can be found when people overweight proximity and are willing (for example) to suffer serious welfare losses in terms of ...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11166-026-09480-2?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nonoa_20260223&utm_content=10.1007/s11166-026-09480-2
about 1 month ago
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Proximity Bias (an autobiographical essay).
@cfcamerer.bsky.social
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Proximity bias - Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
It is rational to care about proximity; closer is often better. Proximity bias can be found when people overweight proximity and are willing (for example) to suffer serious welfare losses in terms of ...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11166-026-09480-2
about 1 month ago
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Lawrence Solum
about 1 month ago
Legal Theory Bookworm: “Separation of Powers” by Sunstein The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Separation of Powers: How to Preserve Liberty in Troubled Times by Cass R. Sunstein. Here is a descritpion: Why the separation of powers is essential to liberty and democracy. From the winner of the…
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Legal Theory Bookworm: “Separation of Powers” by Sunstein
The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Separation of Powers: How to Preserve Liberty in Troubled Times by Cass R. Sunstein. Here is a descritpion: Why the separation of powers is essential to liberty and democracy. From the winner of the Holberg Prize and New York Times–bestselling author of The World According to Star Wars. All over the world, people are questioning the separation of powers.
https://legaltheoryblog.com/2026/02/21/legal-theory-bookworm-separation-of-powers-by-sunstein/
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A review of On Liberalism.
@ichotiner.bsky.social
@katymilkman.bsky.social
theceme.org/book_review/...
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'On Liberalism' by Cass Sunstein
Jan Bentz reviews what may be the most lucid and unembarrassed defense of liberalism in recent memory, expressing a quiet faith that humanity is improvable, that reason can temper rage, and that freed...
https://theceme.org/book_review/on-liberalism-by-cass-sunstein/
about 1 month ago
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Very generous review of my new book, SEPARATION OF POWERS, in
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/f673...
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Ways to save liberal democracy — the pick of the latest political books
A welcome shot of serious thought about populism, a bold argument for citizen rule, Gordon Brown revisited — and a work by Cass Sunstein that all politicians should digest
https://www.ft.com/content/f6739f0c-bf6a-46e9-94f6-253a4737e768
about 1 month ago
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Coming in 2027. My most personal book, and risky, I know.
#AnimalsMatter
@jeffsebo.bsky.social
@raffaelfasel.bsky.social
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Animals Matter
From The New York Times bestselling author, a bold new account of animal rights, why they may be on the verge of mass popularity, and why animals need a Bill of Rights
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691289038/animals-matter?srsltid=AfmBOoqAv4R15wYTaoN-lVVhrVLU2VP0BF4GV2xbJvkEY-D7OveyOObA
about 1 month ago
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A Brisk Note on the Tariffs Case.
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A Brisk Note on the Tariffs Case
Simpler than Meets the Eye
https://casssunstein.substack.com/p/a-brisk-note-on-the-tariffs-case
about 1 month ago
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MIT Press
about 1 month ago
Next week,
@casssunstein.bsky.social
delivers a talk at MIT Museum on his new book "Separation of Powers," an essential examination of the separation of powers and why it is necessary for both freedom and self-government Link for details:
mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/aut...
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Coming soon from
@elgarpublishing.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
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reposted by
Lawrence Solum
about 1 month ago
Sunstein on Liberal AI Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard Law School; Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)) has posted Liberal AI on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Can AI be liberal? In what sense? One answer points to the liberal insistence on freedom of choice, understood as a product of the…
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Sunstein on Liberal AI
Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard Law School; Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)) has posted Liberal AI on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Can AI be liberal? In what sense? One answer points to the liberal insistence on freedom of choice, understood as a product of the commitment to personal autonomy and individual dignity. Mill and Hayek are of course defining figures here, emphasizing the epistemic foundations for freedom of choice.
https://legaltheoryblog.com/2026/02/18/sunstein-on-liberal-ai/
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Coming soon from
@elgarpublishing.bsky.social
www.amazon.co.uk/Decisions-So...
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Decisions and Social Norms: Amazon.co.uk: Ullmann-Margalit, Edna, Sunstein, Cass R.: 9781035397464: Books
Buy Decisions and Social Norms by Ullmann-Margalit, Edna, Sunstein, Cass R. (ISBN: 9781035397464) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Decisions-Social-Norms-Edna-Ullmann-Margalit/dp/1035397463
about 1 month ago
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Harvard Book Store
about 1 month ago
📆 Tues. 2/17 at 7PM: Cass R. Sunstein—the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University—joins us for a discussion of his latest book, "Separation of Powers: How to Preserve Liberty in Troubled Times". Learn more here:
buff.ly/Fn4S9oh
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Proximity Bias. Forthcoming in much revised and expanded form in the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. (Also this is the closest thing to an autobiography that I will ever write.)
@cfcamerer.bsky.social
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about 1 month ago
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Times Higher Education (THE)
about 1 month ago
Is a new book about the separation of powers, by Harvard legal scholar Cass Sunstein, remiss not to mention Trump? Matthew Reisz reports in today’s in-depth read
https://ow.ly/BFJS50Yf9FM
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Really honored to be appearing here and to celebrate the great Colin Camerer
@sweiwang.bsky.social
@cfcamerer.bsky.social
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about 1 month ago
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Writers Who Aren't Boring.
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Writers Who Aren't Boring
1 I was at a dinner party a few years ago, and the guest of honor was a well-known Irish writer.
https://casssunstein.substack.com/p/writers-who-arent-boring
about 1 month ago
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Honored to be speaking at Oxford on "LIBERAL AI" in May.
www.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/event/ethics...
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Ethics in AI Fifth Annual Lecture - Liberal AI, Professor Cass R. Sunstein | Ethics in AI
AbstractThe talk will explore how artificial intelligence can achieve some of the core goals of a liberal society, by overcoming human error that produces discrimination and unfairness, but also how A...
https://www.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/event/ethics-ai-fifth-annual-lecture-liberal-ai-professor-cass-r-sunstein-cheng-kar-shun-digital
about 1 month ago
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Dropping early next week.
www.amazon.com/Separation-P...
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Separation of Powers: How to Preserve Liberty in Troubled Times
Separation of Powers: How to Preserve Liberty in Troubled Times [Sunstein, Cass R.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Separation of Powers: How to Preserve Liberty in Troubled Times
https://www.amazon.com/Separation-Powers-Cass-R-Sunstein/dp/026205177X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1748428845&sr=1-3-ef9bfdb7-b507-43a0-b887-27e2a8414df0
about 1 month ago
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The Endangerment Finding.
@ichotiner.bsky.social
@cfcamerer.bsky.social
@katymilkman.bsky.social
@statmodeling.bsky.social
casssunstein.substack.com/p/the-endang...
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The Endangerment Finding
Rescinded - But the Day Is Young
https://casssunstein.substack.com/p/the-endangerment-finding
about 1 month ago
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Stephanie Wang
about 2 months ago
spoiler alert: this is one of the papers that will be included in the JEBO issue in honor of
@cfcamerer.bsky.social
stay tuned for more great papers in the issue.
add a skeleton here at some point
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PATERNALISM AFTER BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS - 22 years in the making, just out in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
@cfcamerer.bsky.social
@lsolum.bsky.social
@michael-sanders.bsky.social
@katymilkman.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Paternalism after behavioral economics
The outpouring of empirical work on how and when human beings depart from perfect rationality has led to a wholesale rethinking of paternalism and its…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167268126000545
about 2 months ago
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reposted by
MIT Press
about 2 months ago
Join
@casssunstein.bsky.social
at
@politicsprose.bsky.social
for a talk on his new book, "Separation of Powers: How to Preserve Liberty in Troubled Times." 📆 Sun, Feb. 22nd 🕓 5:00 PM 📍Politics & Prose | 5015 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, D.C. Link for details:
politics-prose.com/event/2026-0...
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MIT Press
about 2 months ago
"Separation of Powers" is an essential examination of the separation of powers and why it is necessary for both freedom and self-government. Join author
@casssunstein.bsky.social
at MIT Museum on Tues, Feb. 24th for a talk on this critical topic. Link for details:
mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/aut...
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On political extremism and a terrific new book on that subject.
casssunstein.substack.com/p/there-is-n...
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"There Is No Line"
Group Polarization, Echo Chambers, and Transgression
https://casssunstein.substack.com/p/there-is-no-line
about 2 months ago
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BOUNDED RATIONALITY (probably my least-bad book in recent years, over 500 pp.).
@cfcamerer.bsky.social
@ichotiner.bsky.social
@michael-sanders.bsky.social
@katymilkman.bsky.social
www.amazon.com/Bounded-Rati...
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Bounded Rationality: Heuristics, Judgment, and Public Policy
Amazon.com: Bounded Rationality: Heuristics, Judgment, and Public Policy: 9780262543705: Dhami, Sanjit, Sunstein, Cass R.: Books
https://www.amazon.com/Bounded-Rationality-Heuristics-Judgment-Public/dp/0262543702
about 2 months ago
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