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Heuristics and public policy : decision making under bounded rationality

Dhami, Sanjit S.; Al-Nowaihi, Ali; Sunstein, Cass R. - 2018

How do human beings make decisions when, as the evidence indicates, the assumptions of the Bayesian rationality … rationality, with particular emphasis on growing formalization of those departures, which add necessary precision. We also explore … the relationship between bounded rationality and libertarian paternalism, or nudges, and show that some recent objections …

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What Do People Want to Know? Information Avoidance and Food Policy Implications

Sunstein, Cass R.; Reisch, Lucia; Kaiser, Micha - 2021

What information would people like to have? What information would they prefer to avoid? How does the provision of information bear on welfare? And what does this mean for food policy? Representative surveys in eleven nations find that substantial percentages of people do not want to receive...

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The Use of Algorithms in Society

Sunstein, Cass R. - 2023

The judgments of human beings can be biased; they can also be noisy. Across a wide range of settings, use of algorithms is likely to improve accuracy, because algorithms will reduce both bias and noise. Indeed, algorithms can help identify the role of human biases; they might even identify biases...

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The Rhetoric of Reaction Redux

Sunstein, Cass R. - 2022

In The Rhetoric of Reaction, published in 1991, Albert Hirschman identified three standard objections to reform proposals: perversity, futility, and jeopardy. In Hirschman’s account, these objections define reactionary rhetoric. As Hirschman had it, a proposal would be “perverse” if it...

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Take-Up

Bearson, Dafna; Sunstein, Cass R. - 2023

Why are take-up rates incomplete or low when opportunities are unambiguously advantageous to people who are eligible for them? How can public officials promote higher take-up of opportunity? All over the world, these are challenges of the first order. There are three primary barriers to take-up:...

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Governing by Algorithm? No Noise and (Potentially) Less Bias

Sunstein, Cass R. - 2021

As intuitive statisticians, human beings suffer from identifiable biases, cognitive and otherwise. Human beings can also be “noisy,” in the sense that their judgments show unwanted variability. As a result, public institutions, including those that consist of administrative prosecutors and...

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Welfare Now

Sunstein, Cass R. - 2022

Behaviorally informed interventions include nudges, taxes, subsidies, bans, and mandates. In evaluating such interventions, policymakers should consider both their welfare effects (including, for example, their potentially negative effects on subjective well-being) and their effects on...

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Interest-Group Theories of Regulation : A Skeptical Note

Sunstein, Cass R. - 2021

As a rule, regulation is not acquired by “the industry,” and it is not designed and operated primarily for its benefit. The mechanisms behind the promulgation of regulations are multiple, and almost all of the time, it greatly matters whether regulators believe that regulations will, all...

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Beatlemania

Sunstein, Cass R. - 2022

Why did the Beatles become a worldwide sensation? Why do some cultural products succeed and others fail? Why are some musicians, poets, and novels,, unsuccessful or unknown in their lifetimes, iconic figures decades or generation after their deaths? Why are success and failure so unpredictable?...

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"Don’t tell me what I can't do!" : on the intrinsic value of control

Sunstein, Cass R. - 2017

For most people, control has some intrinsic value; people care about maintaining it and will pay something to do so. Whenever a private or public institution blocks choices or interferes with agency, some people will rebel, even if exercising control would not result in material benefits or might...

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