The Mars craze is a case study in twisting evidence and defying facts.

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Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard Law School; Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)) has posted Valuing Children's Statistical Lives: A Conceptual Framework on SSRN. Here is the abstract: A longstanding puzzle for regulatory theory and practice has been the valuation of children's lives, or more precisely, the valuation of mortality risks faced by children. There is data about parents' willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce such risks, and that data might be used to produce a Valuation of Statistical Lives (VSL) for children.

Clean Hands, Dirty Hands, and Strange Bedfollows

The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Imperfect Oracle: What AI Can and Cannot Do by Cass R. Sunstein. Here is a description: Imperfect Oracle is about the promise and limits of artificial intelligence. The promise is that in important ways AI is better than we are at making judgments. Its limits are evidenced by the fact that AI cannot always make accurate predictions—not today, not tomorrow, and not the day after, either.

A longstanding puzzle for regulatory theory and practice has been the valuation of children's lives, or more precisely, the valuation of mortality risks faced b

The concept of the rule of law is invoked for purposes that are both numerous and diverse, and that concept is often said to overlap with, or to require, an assortment of other practices and ideals, i...

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Miranda Lambert, Joe Rogan, and A Baby Deer

The explosion of empirical work on how and when human beings depart from perfect rationality has led to a wholesale rethinking of paternalism and its limits. Ov

Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash and Cass R. Sunstei n have published Radical Constitutional Change in the Virginia Law Review : At defining p...

At defining points in American history, there have been radical constitutional changes, defined as massive shifts in constitutional understandings, doctrines, and practices. Apparently settled princip...

Both free markets and government regulators tend to use willingness to pay (WTP) to measure the value of goods. The reason for use of WTP is that it is the best

Cass R. Sunstein, one of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars, will lead a discussion of the past, present and future of free expression at American universities when he delivers the Konvitz M...

A Clue to Many Puzzles

On humor, optimism, and freedom amidst dark times

This pathbreaking book casts new light on how to best handle life’s most difficult decisions. Edna Ullmann-Margalit and Cass R. Sunstein examine the role of social norms in creating both stability and...

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La extrema derecha amenaza la libertad individual, política y económica, y mantener en el poder a la extrema izquierda terminaría por destruirnos.

This pathbreaking book casts new light on how to best handle life’s most difficult decisions. Edna Ullmann-Margalit and Cass R. Sunstein examine the role of social norms in creating both stability and...

A great deal of work in behavioral science emphasizes that statistical predictions often outperform clinical predictions. Formulas tend to do better than people do, and algorithms tend to outperform…