ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Cass Sunstein

Prof. Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard and the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School.

POSTS BY Cass Sunstein

14 October 2025

Cass Sunstein

Meat-Free Nudging

In the last decades, we have learned a great deal about how human beings think and act. We now know far more about our species than we ever did. What we have learned tells us what we might do to change current behavior. In particular, we know a lot about what we might do to nudge meat-free eating. Let’s start with people, and then turn to behavior change. Continue reading >>

13 January 2015

Cass Sunstein, Alexander Winterstein, Johanna Wolff, Christoph Möllers

Panel 2: Choice as Experience – Case Studies

Photos and a video of the discussion. Continue reading >>

13 January 2015

Cass Sunstein, Christoph Möllers

Key Note Lecture: The Ethics of Choice Architecture

Cass Sunstein's key note lecture in the BBAW Leibniz Hall, Berlin 2015 Jan 12th. Continue reading >>

05 January 2015

Cass Sunstein

The Ethics of Nudging

The last decade has seen a rapid growth of interest in choice-preserving, low-cost regulatory tools, sometimes termed "nudges." Especially in light of that interest, it is important to obtain an understanding of the nature and weight of the ethical concerns. Continue reading >>