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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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Risk and reason : safety, law, and the environment
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the arithmetic of arsenic, cost-benefit default principles, and reducing risks rationally in the context of health-health trade-offs, and present a risk assessment of the risks.
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The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes
Stephen Holmes,Cass R. Sunstein +1 more
TL;DR: The notion that all legally enforceable rights cost money is a practical, common sense notion, but one ignored by almost everyone as mentioned in this paper, who argue that to "fight for your rights" is not just to debate principles but to haggle over budgets.
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Designing Democracy: What Constitutions Do
TL;DR: In this article, Sunstein argues that political disagreement is the source of both the gravest danger and the greatest security in modern democracies, but is this conflict necessarily something to fear? In this provocative book, one of our leading political and legal theorists reveals how a nation's divisions of conviction and belief can be used to safeguard democracy.
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Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict
TL;DR: Sunstein this paper argues that the most glamorous and even glorious moments in a legal system come when a high court recognizes an abstract principle involving, for example, human liberty or equality.
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Cost-Benefit Analysis And Relative Position
Cass R. Sunstein,Robert H. Frank +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that current estimates of regulatory benefits are too low and likely far too low, because they ignore a central point about valuation - namely, that people care not only about their absolute economic position, but also about their relative economic position.