books by Cass R. Sunstein     books:     Cass R. Sunstein      Why Societies Need Dissent (Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures) Cass R. Sunstein Harvard University Press, 2005 Must-read for anyone who works in groups I really enjoyed this book. It was very readable and well written. I appreciated how the viewpoints and examples used were neutral and usable regardless of the reader's perspective on any issue. Some of the more interesting points were: (1) an explanation of the ...             Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge Cass R. Sunstein Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 A thoughtful consideration Of when and why these techniques (polling, prediction markets, blogs, wiki, FOSS) work -- and when they don't. Despite the title this isn't a collection of breathless prose, but a thinking through of the underlying principles e.g., prediction markets don't work for ...             Free Markets and Social Justice Cass R. Sunstein Oxford University Press, USA, 1999 Balanced analysis of markets The author provides a balance between recognizing the value that is embodied in free markets and realizing that they are not an end in themselves. Rather, the author writes that markets are best evaluated on the basis not of some imagined inherent worth, but on the ...             Republic.com 2.0 Cass R. Sunstein Princeton University Press, 2007 What happens to democracy and free speech if people use the Internet to create echo chambers--to listen and speak only to the like-minded? What is the democratic benefit of the Internet's unlimited choices if citizens narrowly limit the information they receive, creating ever-smaller niches and fragmenting the shared public conversation on which ...             Worst-Case Scenarios Cass R. Sunstein Harvard University Press, 2007 Good read, good insights, but makes leaps of faith that fall short I recommend reading this book. Dr. Sunstein considers many modes of thought and the book should get you thinking. Throughout the book Dr. Sunstein uses two main narratives to examine how people react to uncertainty, Terrorism and Global Warming. He provides a very ...             Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle (The Seeley Lectures) Cass R. Sunstein Cambridge University Press, 2005 Fear rules Not a lawyer found the writing somewhat turgid and slow; on the other hand our decision making and valuation of life and risk is certainly not epistimic. Read just before the Black Swan which discusses risk from a different angle. For those ...             Constitutional Law (Casebook) (Casebook) Geoffrey R. Stone, Louis M. Seidman, ... Aspen Publishers, Inc., 2005 Reasonable - Good Historical Materials I've had cause to study this book a little for a course in Constitutional Problems at the University of Western Australia. Inevitably - while my requirements cannot be as detailed or exhaustive as that of my American friends, I found it a useful guide to the major ...             Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions Oxford University Press, USA, 2005 The New Standard Nussbaum and Sunstein have put together something very special. This book mixes the standard animal rights fare of Singer, Wise, and Francione with exciting new contributions by thinkers like Catharine MacKinnon, Richard Posner, as well as Sunstein and Nussbaum ...             Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein Yale University Press, 2008 A Triumph for Behavioral Economics Richard Thaler, an economist at the University of Chicago School of Business, is one of the founders of modern behavioral economics, along with economists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman. Cass Sunstein is a legal scholar and political science professor at the ...             Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy: Problems, Text, and Cases Richard B. Stewart, Cass R. Sunstein, ... Aspen Publishers, Inc., 2006 A "best sellers" of administrative law This is a complete and remarkable book about administrative law, in which the study of administrative procedure is preponderant, especially from the perspective of the cases.             Designing Democracy: What Constitutions Do Cass R. Sunstein Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 Intelligently designing democratic institutions First of all, I would like to say that I appreciate Cass Sunstein works a lot. Basically, I try to read everything he writes. Although here and there I would have a slightly different opinion (v.g. in free speech matters I tend to have a broader view of this ...             Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts are Wrong for America Cass R. Sunstein Basic Books, 2005 Why less is sometimes more This book has helped me to stregthen my view, that it is always dangerous to strive for a greater good by utterly human means. That is what the fundamentalists do. They believe to be in a position that allows them to pass judgement on everybody else, but not on ...             The Cost-Benefit State: The Future of Regulatory Protection Cass R. Sunstein American Bar Association, 2002 This book discusses the current topic of Federal Government regulations increasingly assessed by asking whether the benefits of the regulation justifies the cost of the regulation.             Risk and Reason: Safety, Law, and the Environment Cass R. Sunstein Cambridge University Press, 2004 Huge Helping of Reason, Needs Salt The bottom line on this book is clear: our governance of risk to the public tends to be managed by political gut reaction rather than informed investigation; there is no clear doctrine for studying and articulating risk (for example, distinguishing between high risks ...             Are Judges Political?: An Empirical Analysis of the Federal Judiciary Cass R. Sunstein, David Schkade, ... Brookings Institution Press, 2006 More Insight into Behavior on the U.S. Courts of Appeals This is the second of two current book-length examinations of judicial behavior on the United States Courts of Appeals. The other book is "Judging on a Collegial Court" by Hettinger et al., also reviewed on Amazon. 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