Cambridge Elements: Behavioural Science and Public Policy with Cass Sunstein

2021-03-10

Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and after that, he served on the President's Review Board on Intelligence and Communications Technologies and on the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Board. In 2020, the World Health Organization appointed...

Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School.

From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and after that, he served on the President's Review Board on Intelligence and Communications Technologies and on the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Board.

In 2020, the World Health Organization appointed him as Chair of its technical advisory group on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health. He is also The New York Times best-selling author of The World According to Star Wars (2016) and Nudge (2008)

Here, Cass Sunstein explores some of the key themes in his Element, Behavioural Science and Public Policy in conversation with Tony Hockley from the London School of Economics.