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…

Group Polarization, Echo Chambers, and Transgression

Amazon.com: Bounded Rationality: Heuristics, Judgment, and Public Policy: 9780262543705: Dhami, Sanjit, Sunstein, Cass R.: Books

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 stabili...

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

As the 250th anniversary of our independence approaches, let us linger over the most important sentence that James Madison ever wrote, and the most relevant to the current moment.

When All Roads Lead to Rome

A Note on What People Think They Know

Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard Law School; Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School) & Oren Bar-Gill (New York University School of Law) have posted Algorithmic Harm: A Response to Critics on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In our 2025 book, Algorithmic Harm, we contend that the use of algorithms can benefit consumers in many ways (largely because of greater personalization), but that it can also cause harm in the face of information deficits and behavioral biases (again, largely because of greater personalization).

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...

5:00 pm - Lecture 6:30 pm - Reception In what Politico has called a “stirring intellectual defense of liberalism from its critics across the politic

What I Am Learning from the NFL Playoffs

<p><i>Whatever the party of the new president, elected in 2028, it would be worthwhile for the incoming administration to consider eight ideas, to be explicitly

Speculations on Conspiracy Theories, Patterns, and Dots That Connect

Policymakers and regulators are increasingly interested in behavioural auditing tools to counteract manipulative designs in Online Choice Architecture (OCA). To date, auditing tools have been largely

On a pervasive confusion out there

The Hiss-Chambers saga stemmed from a stunning accusation, by Whittaker Chambers, that Alger Hiss, a law clerk to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and a golden boy o