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Cass R. Sunstein
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 826
Citations - 63363
Cass R. Sunstein is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supreme court & Politics. The author has an hindex of 117, co-authored 787 publications receiving 57639 citations. Previous affiliations of Cass R. Sunstein include Brigham Young University & Indiana University.
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Inequality and Indignation
TL;DR: In this article, moral indignation, understood as a willingness to suffer in order to punish unfair treatment by others, is demonstrated to promote people's material self-interest, if and because others will anticipate their actions.
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The Storrs Lectures: Behavioral Economics and Paternalism
TL;DR: A growing body of evidence demonstrates that in some contexts and for identifiable reasons, people make choices that are not in their interest, even when the stakes are high as discussed by the authors, and that behavioral market failures should be taken into consideration, even if the resulting actions are paternalistic.
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Cognition and Cost-Benefit Analysis
TL;DR: Costbenefit analysis is often justified on conventional economic grounds, as a way of preventing inefficiency as mentioned in this paper. But it is most plausibly justified on cognitive grounds, such as counteracting predictable problems in individual and social cognition.
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Causation in Tort: General Populations vs. Individual Cases
Cass R. Sunstein,William Meadow +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a tort plaintiff must show that the defendant's conduct created a statistically significant increase in the likelihood that the injury would not have occurred if the defendant had followed the relevant standard of care.
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Risk and Reason
TL;DR: Risk and Reason as mentioned in this paper explores the sources of these problems and explores what can be done about them and offers sound proposals for social reform, and explains how a more sensible system of risk regulation, embodied in the idea of a 'cost-benefit state', could save many thousands of lives and many billions of dollars too - and protect the environment in the process.