Mar 5, 2019
From New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein, a brisk, provocative book that shows what freedom really means—and requires—today
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From press.princeton.edu/titles/30081.html
In this pathbreaking book, New York
Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein asks us to rethink
freedom. He shows that freedom of choice isn’t nearly enough. To be
free, we must also be able to navigate life. People often need
something like a GPS device to help them get where they want to
go—whether the issue involves health, money, jobs, children, or
relationships.
In both rich and poor countries, citizens often have no idea how to
get to their desired destination. That is why they are unfree.
People also face serious problems of self-control, as many of them
make decisions today that can make their lives worse tomorrow. And
in some cases, we would be just as happy with other choices,
whether a different partner, career, or place to live—which raises
the difficult question of which outcome best promotes our
well-being.
Accessible and lively, and drawing on perspectives from the
humanities, religion, and the arts, as well as social science and
the law, On Freedom explores a crucial dimension
of the human condition that philosophers and economists have long
missed—and shows what it would take to make freedom real.
Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School, where he is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy. From 2009 to 2012, he led the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. His many books include the New York Times bestsellers Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler) and The World According to Star Wars. The 2018 recipient of Norway’s Holberg Prize, he lives in Concord, Massachusetts. Twitter @CassSunstein
From hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10871/Sunstein
Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. 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. Mr. Sunstein has testified before congressional committees on many subjects, and he has been involved in constitution-making and law reform activities in a number of nations.
Mr. Sunstein is author of many articles and books, including Republic.com (2001), Risk and Reason (2002), Why Societies Need Dissent (2003), The Second Bill of Rights (2004), Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle (2005), Worst-Case Scenarios (2001), Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler, 2008), Simpler: The Future of Government (2013) and most recently Why Nudge? (2014) and Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas (2014). He is now working on group decisionmaking and various projects on the idea of liberty