ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Cass Sunstein

Cass R. Sunstein (b. 1954) is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regu-latory Affairs. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. Mr. Sunstein has testified before congressional commit-tees on many subjects, and he has been involved in constitution-making and law reform activi-ties in a number of nations. Mr. Sunstein is author of many articles and books, including Re-public.com (2001), Risk and Reason (2002), Why Societies Need Dissent (2003), The Second Bill of Rights (2004), Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle (2005), Worst-Case Scenarios (2009), Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler, 2009), Simpler: The Future of Government (2013) and most recently Why Nudge? (2014) and Valuing Life: Humanizing the Regulatory State (2014)and Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter (2014). He is now working on group decisionmaking and various projects on the idea of liberty.