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“... specialised networks applies to any type of interest whatever, and they are proliferating rapidly. Cass Sunstein, a leading American Constitutional lawyer, is duly appreciative of this expansion of possibilities, but he wants to raise the alarm about another of its consequences, like those dire warnings of possible side-effects that come with every patent ...”

“... and think through the assumptions and strategies that adopting the One Per Cent Doctrine involves. Cass Sunstein has done this in Worst-Case Scenarios. Sunstein has written a lot on constitutional theory and judicial decision-making, and in recent years has turned his attention to descriptive and normative theories of ...”

“... for him. He found out about their work after the economist Richard Thaler and the legal scholar Cass Sunstein suggested in a joint review of Moneyball that the story of Billy Beane, the general manager of the baseball team the Oakland Athletics, could be read as a case study in support of Kahneman and Tversky’s work: by trusting statistics over the ...”

“... opponents of the precautionary principle, such as Barack Obama’s new regulation tsar, Cass Sunstein, have argued on the basis of these ‘paradoxes of precaution’ that the principle offers no guide for decision-making at all. Sunstein instead advocates a form of cost-benefit analysis as the best way to ...”

“... of micro-changes also lay at the heart of ‘nudging’, the term coined by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein for scarcely noticeable government interventions that alter individual behaviour with minimal effort, cost or constraint, but significant social benefit. One of the best-known examples in Thaler and ...”

“... be called precautionary if it involves a readiness to throw away lives on a supposition? As Cass Sunstein recently pointed out in his Seeley Lectures in Cambridge, the precautionary principle is flawed however it is used – whether the issue is the environment, food safety, terrorism or war – because it is self-contradictory: it can always be ...”

“... underpinnings. The approach has also been taken up by non-psychologists like Peter Singer and Cass Sunstein. Like Hume, it ascribes to deontological rules some form of social utility, but it is often disposed to find that utility more pronounced in the past, when our hunter-gatherer ancestors lived in small groups and evolutionary forces produced the ...”

“... for these insights. The popularisation of behavioural economics was led by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein’s book Nudge (2008), which inspired the setting-up of ‘behavioural insights’ teams in governments around the world (with Cameron’s coalition government at the forefront), and has nurtured a view of policy that is attentive to our ...”