Cass R. Sunstein

The Ethics of Influence

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In The Ethics of Influence, Cass R. Sunstein investigates the ethical issues surrounding government nudges, choice architecture, and mandates.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 545g
• ISBN-13: 9781107140707
• ISBN-10: 1107140706
• Artikelnr.: 44828488

Autorenporträt

Cass R. Sunstein is Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University, Massachusetts. From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School, and he is the author of many articles and books, including the best-selling Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler, 2008), Simpler: The Future of Government (2013), Why Nudge? (2014), Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas (2014), Wiser: Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter (2014), Valuing Life: Humanizing the Regulatory State (2014), Choosing Not to Choose: Understanding the Value of Choice (2015) and Constitutional Personae: Heroes, Soldiers, Minimalists, and Mutes (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The age of behavioral science
2. Choice and its architecture
3. 'As judged by themselves'
4. Values
5. Fifty shades of manipulation
6. Do people like nudges? Empirical findings
7. Green by default? Ethical challenges for environmental protection
8. Mandates - a very brief recapitulation
Appendix A. American attitudes toward thirty-four nudges
Appendix B. Survey questions
Appendix C. Executive Order 13707: using behavioral science insights to better serve the American people
Acknowledgements.