Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas [Kindle Edition]
Author: Cass R. Sunstein - ISBN: B00DTDFTGU - Language: English - Format: PDF, EPUB
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The nation’s most-cited legal scholar who for decades has been at the forefront of applied behavioral economics, and the bestselling author of Nudge and Simpler, Cass Sunstein is one of the world’s most innovative thinkers in the academy and the world of practical politics. In the years leading up to his confirmation as the administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Sunstein published hundreds of articles on everything from same-sex marriage to cost-benefit analysis. Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas is a collection of his most famous, insightful, relevant, and inflammatory pieces. Within these pages you will learn:
• Why perfectly rational people sometimes believe crazy conspiracy theories
• What wealthy countries should and should not do about climate change
• Why governments should allow same-sex marriage, and what the “right to marry” is all about
• Why animals have rights (and what that means)
• Why we “misfear,” meaning get scared when we should be unconcerned and are unconcerned when we should get scared
• What kinds of losses make us miserable, and what kinds of losses are absolutely fine
• How to find the balance between religious freedom and gender equality
• And much more . . .
Cass Sunstein is a unique, controversial, and exciting voice in the political world. A man who cuts through the fog of left vs. right arguments and offers logical, evidence-based, and often surprising solutions to today’s most challenging questions.
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- File Size: 1529 KB
- Print Length: 289 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1476726620
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (March 18, 2014)
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- Language: English
- ASIN: B00DTDFTGU
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I'm going to repost an anonymous comment I saw recently on one of Sunstein's opinion pieces in Bloomberg News' Newsday:
"Here's a conspiracy theory for you: The brief bio of Sunstein that Newsday provides fails to mention, quite revealingly, is that Cass Sunstein served in the Obama administration as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. He was hired a year after he and a co-author wrote this in a Harvard scholarly paper (aptly titled 'conspiracy theories'):
"We can readily imagine a series of possible responses [to inconvenient conspiracy theories]
(1) Government might ban conspiracy theorizing.
(2) Government might impose some kind of tax, financial or otherwise, on those who disseminate such theories.
(3) Government might itself engage in counterspeech, marshaling arguments to discredit conspiracy theories.
(4) Government might formally hire credible private parties to engage in counterspeech.
(5) Government might engage in informal communication with such parties, encouraging them to help."
I thought it was an excellent summary of Mr. Sunstein -- you read that proposed treatment of those who dare to be concerned about drinking flouride in their water everyday, or who dare to wonder if their cell phones might ultimately contribute to brain cancer, and you suddenly understand a great deal about Cass Sunstein with only a very brief investment of time.
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