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One Case at a Time: Judicial Minimalism on the Supreme Court

One Case at a Time: Judicial Minimalism on the Supreme Court

Cass R. Sunstein

But something is settled in the process--in the incremental approach--as Cass Sunstein shows us in this instructive book.
The Partial Constitution

The Partial Constitution

Cass R. Sunstein

In a major new interpretation of the Constitution, Cass Sunstein offers a clear account of our present dilemmas and shows where we might go from here. As it is currently interpreted, the Constitution is partial, Sunstein asserts.
Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge

Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge

Cass R. Sunstein

In this book, Cass R. Sunstein develops a deeply optimistic understanding of the human potential to pool information, and to use that knowledge to improve our lives.
Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite and Divide

Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite and Divide

Cass R. Sunstein

In short, why do people become extremists? In Going to Extremes, renowned legal scholar and best-selling author Cass Sunstein offers startling insights into why and when people gravitate toward extremism.
Valuing Life: Humanizing the Regulatory State

Valuing Life: Humanizing the Regulatory State

Cass R. Sunstein

In Valuing Life, Cass R. Sunstein draws on his firsthand experience as the Administrator of OIRA from 2009 to 2012 to argue that we can humanize regulation—and save lives in the process.
Why Societies Need Dissent

Why Societies Need Dissent

Cass R. Sunstein

Dissenters are often portrayed as selfish and disloyal, but Sunstein shows that those who reject pressures imposed by others perform valuable social functions, often at their own expense.
Republic.com 2.0

Republic.com 2.0

Cass R. Sunstein

Now, in Republic.com 2.0, Sunstein thoroughly rethinks the critical relationship between democracy and the Internet in a world where partisan Weblogs have emerged as a significant political force.
Simpler: The Future of Government

Simpler: The Future of Government

Cass R. Sunstein

In this highly anticipated book, Sunstein pulls back the curtain to show what was done, why Americans are better off as a result, and what the future has in store. The evidence is all around you, and more is coming soon.
Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle

Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle

Cass R. Sunstein

Instead of adopting the Precautionary Principle, Professor Sunstein argues for three steps: a narrow Anti-Catastrophe Principle, designed for the most serious risks; close attention to costs and benefits; and an approach called 'libertarian ...
Worst-Case Scenarios

Worst-Case Scenarios

Cass R Sunstein

Sunstein explores these and other worst-case scenarios and how we might best prevent them in this vivid, illuminating, and highly original analysis.
Why Nudge?: The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism

Why Nudge?: The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism

Cass R. Sunstein

The best-selling author of Simpler offers an argument for protecting people from their own mistakes.
Republic.com 2.0

Republic.com 2.0

Cass R. Sunstein

This is a compelling if sober set of questions from America's foremost legal scholar."--Lawrence Lessig, Stanford University
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

Cass R Sunstein

Nudge offers a unique new way of looking at the world for individuals and governments alike. This is one of the most engaging, provocative and important books you will ever read.
Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict

Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict

Cass R. Sunstein

Legal reasoning can seem impenetrable, mysterious, baroque. This book helps dissolve the mystery.
Radicals in Robes

Radicals in Robes

Cass R. Sunstein

Radicals in Robes pulls away the veil of rhetoric from a dangerous and radical movement and issues a strong and passionate warning about what conservatives really intend.
Risk and Reason: Safety, Law, and the Environment

Risk and Reason: Safety, Law, and the Environment

Cass R. Sunstein

Reveals the sources of such problems as airplane safety, global warming, and pollution, and examines what can be done by providing proposals for social reform and risk regulation.
The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism

The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism

Laura Kalman

Such prominent legal thinkers as Cass Sunstein, Bruce Ackerman, and Frank Michelman have incorporated the work of historians into their legal theories and arguments, turning to eighteenth-century republicanism--which stressed communal ...
Punitive Damages: How Juries Decide

Punitive Damages: How Juries Decide

Cass R. Sunstein

W. Kip Viscusi I. Introduction The shortcomings in individual decisions involving risk influence the responses of social institutions to risk. In a democratic society, governmental action is responsive to citizen preferences. Substantial evidence ...
Nudging Health: Health Law and Behavioral Economics

Nudging Health: Health Law and Behavioral Economics

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CONTENTS Foreword, Cass R. Sunstein xi Acknowledgments xxix SETTING THE STAGE Introduction 3 Christopher T. Robertson, I. Glenn Cohen, and Holly Fernandez Lynch 1 Three Choice Architecture Paradigms for Healthcare Policy 15 ...
Cass Gilbert: The Early Years

Cass Gilbert: The Early Years

Geoffrey Blodgett

Jan Cigliano and Sarah Bradford Landau, eds. (San Francisco: Pomegranate Art Books, 1994), 93-151. 2 1 . Cass Gilbert to E. C. Simmons, June 4, 1907, Cass Gilbert to W A. Johnson, Feb. 19, 1910, Cass Gilbert Letterbooks, OCA; St. Paul ...
The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution and ...

The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution and ...

Cass R. Sunstein

Using FDR's 1944 State of the Union Address as a starting point, the author delves deeply into the revolutionary mind that penned this remarkable declaration of economic rights and illuminates the demise of this ambitious program for reform ...
An ethics trajectory: visions of media past, present and yet ...

An ethics trajectory: visions of media past, present and yet ...

Thomas W. Cooper

3^ Cecilia Friend & Jane B. Singer (2007) Online Journalism Ethics: Traditions and Transitions, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, p. xx. 31 Cass S. Sunstein (2001) " The Daily We: Is the Internet really a blessing for democracy?" in: Boston Review  ...
Behaviour change: 2nd report of session 2010-12

Behaviour change: 2nd report of session 2010-12

Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Science and Technology Committee

The currently influential book 'Nudge' by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein advocates a range of non-regulatory interventions that seek to influence behaviour by altering the context or environment in which people choose, and seek to ...
Humming the Blues

Humming the Blues

Cass Dalglish

Cass Dalglish returns to ancient Iraq in translations of Enheduanna's tribute to the goddess Inanna.
The Pity Party: 8th Grade in the Life of Me, Cass

The Pity Party: 8th Grade in the Life of Me, Cass

Alison Pollet

When Cass Levin, an orphaned eighth-grader at Elston Prep in New York City, begins a friendship with Rod Punkin, her world begins to change. By the author of Nobody Was Here. Reprint.
With This Ring: A Mystery

With This Ring: A Mystery

D. Grove

“Most seriously,” said Cass. Cassidy repeated, “I understand.” Cass took a deep breath as if she were about to jump into commensurately deep waters. “It's the catalogue. The catalogue was supposed to go to press two weeks ago, and half of ...
Laws of Creation

Laws of Creation

Ronald A. Cass

Cass and Hylton explain how technological advances strengthen the case for intellectual property laws, and argue convincingly that IP laws help create a wealthier, more successful, more innovative society than alternative legal systems.
Contract

Contract

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1 2: Cass Calder Smith For New York-based Cass Calder Smith, variety. ad index Manufacturer Reader Service No. Page No. ABET Laminati 122 103 Allsteel 90 33B-33E Armstrong World Industries 71 4-5 BCM Architectural 88 22 Benjamin ...
China and the World Trading System: Entering the New Millennium

China and the World Trading System: Entering the New Millennium

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The original application for project funding was made by Deborah Cass and Ian McEwin in 1997, who began the research by holding a series of seminars in 1998. In 1999, while Deborah Cass was on leave in the United States, research ...
December

December

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1/2, 1981 , a double issue of December Magazine Editors Kay Cass ill Orin E. Cass ill Curt Johnson The editors and publisher wish to thank the following for permission to reproduce material in this volume: Audience magazine; Associated  ...

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