Noted Behavioral Economics Scholar Cass R. Sunstein to Join RSF as Summer 2014 Visiting Scholar
Cass R. Sunstein, the Robert Walmsley University Professor and Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, will join the Russell Sage Foundation as a Visiting Scholar for Summer 2014, starting on Monday, June 9.
Sunstein is a member of the Foundation’s Behavioral Economics Roundtable, an initiative that gathers prominent scholars in the field to support and promote new research in behavioral economics. With RSF trustee Richard H. Thaler, he co-authored the 2009 book Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, a New York Times bestseller that examines the way that people make decisions and shows how sensible “choice architecture” can successfully nudge people toward the best ones.
Sunstein served as Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs from 2009 to 2012. His other books include, most recently, Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas and Why Nudge?: The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism (2014).
During his time in residence at the Foundation, Sunstein will work on his next book manuscript, titled Choosing Not to Choose.