Cass Sunstein

Sunstein, a legal scholar who is the head of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, contributes his views on the recanting rumors. He states in his book, “When people believe rumors, the believers are often perfectly rational, in the sense that their belief is quite sensible in light of their existing knowledge” (Sunstein 2). Sunstein argues that once a rumor is received and adopted, recanting the rumor…

approved contraceptives with no co-pay, follows the structure of libertarian paternalism (Birth Control Huge Impact on Life….). The government is often the most important applicator of libertarian paternalism which, according to Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, author of New York Times bestseller,…

contraceptive methods. They nudge the female patients to the form of contraceptives that requires prescription and then compare the prescription drugs plan on multiple dimensions (Sunstein & Thaler 172). The doctors then carefully list the precautious to the women of not taking the birth control method correctly- drug compliance (Sunstein & Thaler 91). After a month, a years, or years depending on the contraceptive the client chose, she will have to get recalibrated to make sure the birth…

The Big Sort In the article “The Big Sort,” they talk about Americans moving to communities with like-minded people. Americans have separated themselves economically, politically, and geographically. Conservatives are living around other conservatives, and the liberals are living around other liberals. We do this because Americans like the mirror image. If you are going to buy a house, you look at the area and the people before you decide to buy it. If you are a republican you look for clues…

noticing they have been guided at all. Nudging is a kinder to alternative to stronger tactics used to impact citizens, and is in fact a simpler way of saying “libertarian paternalism.” Libertarian paternalism is a concept developed by Thaler and Sunstein that basically means an entity can affect behavior without limiting a person’s freedom of choice. Organizations and even national governments have taken a look at how this concept might work in their favor. An example DeAngelis uses is of a…

Sunstein and Hastie suggest that individuals become more polarized when they associate only with those who share the same political beliefs. Thus, an individual’s beliefs will intensify and they will identify as either more Republican or more Democratic dependent upon their original political identity. Sunstein and Hastie contribute the growing partisan divide on the groupthink phenomena rather than changing…

Impacts of Fisheries on Marine Ecosystems and the Transition to Ecosystem-Based Management." Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 39 (2008): 259-78. http://www.jstor.org.queens.ezproxy.cuny.edu/stable/30245163. Hsiung, Wayne, and Cass R. Sunstein. "Climate Change and Animals." University of Pennsylvania Law Review 155, no. 6 (2007): 1695-740. http://www.jstor.org.queens.ezproxy.cuny.edu/stable/40041377 Saba, Vincent S., James R. Spotila, Francisco P. Chavez, and John A. Musick.…

The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth Summer Reading Assignment One of the more stronger ideas I agree with is the “No Child Left Behind Law” preventing students from being their true self. I believe this is a common struggle many students have to deal with due to today’s standards. It created boundaries that separates the students and pushes them further apart resulting in them feeling like they do not belong. Many of the students in The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth feel excluded or bullied due…

I grew up under the golden age of the fierce development of the internet and modern technology, so I am not only an authentic witness of such an groundbreaking evolution of the world but also an empathetic user and huge fan who enjoys and cannot leave without those unstoppably growing magic as you are. After reading your article “What Do Our Online Avatars Reveal About Us?”, I was deeply impressed by your ideas about how our online avatars relate to ourselves that endow me with simultaneously…

Every second grader has gone to the zoo to see lions and tigers in their cages and learned about what they eat and a few interesting facts about the animals. What the second graders do not think about is how the animals got to the zoo and what a day in the life of a zoo animal really consists of. No American could ever imagine living in solitary confinement in any situation other than being punished for a crime in jail, so what makes that different for animals? They did not commit crimes,…