Cass Sunstein
Robert Walmsley University Professor, Founder and Director, Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy, Harvard Law School
Cass Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School. From 2013 to 2014, he served on the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies. From 2009 to 2012, he was administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Sunstein was on the faculty at University of Chicago Law School from 1981 to 2008 and an attorney-advisor in the US Justice Department Office of the Legal Counsel prior to that. He has authored hundreds of articles and many books, including Republic.com, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, and his two latest, The World According to Star Wars and The Ethics of Influence.
Previously
2019 Festival
How Change Happens
Audio — 50m
2019 Festival
Afternoon of Conversation
Video — 1h 25m 2s
A Conversation with Mark Zuckerberg
Video — 46m 48s
2017 Festival
#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media
Audio — 1h
2016 Festival
Aspen Lecture: The World According to Star Wars
Video — 47m 22s
2016 Festival
Nudging: How Behavioral Science Conquered the World
Audio — 56m