Introduction 1 1 Knowledge Is Power, but Ignorance Is Bliss 11 2 Measuring Welfare 39 3 Psychology 79 with George Loewenstein and Russell Golman 4 Learning the Wrong Thing 109 with Oren Bar-Gill and David Schkade 5 Moral Wrongs 119 with Eric Posner 6 Valuing Facebook 135 7 Sludge 153 Epilogue 187 Acknowledgments 193 Notes 195 Index 227
Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School, was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration. He was the recipient of the 2018 Holberg Prize, one of the largest annual international research prizes awarded to scholars who have made outstanding contributions to research in the arts and humanities, social science, law, or theology. He is the author of The Cost-Benefit Revolution, How Change Happens (both published by the MIT Press), Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler), and other books.
