Cass Sunstein, an adviser, has written extensively about which life-saving rules are most cost-effective.
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Cass Sunstein, professor of law and political science at the University of Chicago, has read them all, and he joins us from the studio there.
Its regulations tsar, Cass Sunstein, who announced his resignation recently, made an effort to rescind redundant and onerous red tape, especially for the energy industry.
Professor CASS SUNSTEIN (University of Chicago): Thank you so much.
And this builds on the efforts that we have here in the United States, led by Cass Sunstein at OIRA, where we're eliminating billions of dollars in costs from regulations.
Overall, however, "Bush had the uphill battle, " says the University of Chicago's Cass Sunstein, because he had to convince the Justices that they have a reason to insert themselves in a state matter.
To encourage people to enjoy the benefits of lunch, we need to change the lunch default rule with the kind of "libertarian paternalism" advocated by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein in their book Nudge.
Cass Sunstein, the director of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, has been shopping around lower numbers that selectively compare Mr. Obama's first two years favorably with Mr. Bush's last two.
And as Cass Sunstein said in the story, it would be a huge mistake to draw any link between the number of meetings that OIRA, the agency that he headed until recently, holds with outsiders and the outcome of any rule.
We have folks like Secretary Napolitano from Department of Homeland Security, and Cass Sunstein, who are going to be heading up our team, and making sure that these things go into effect in a way that benefits both the Canadian people and the American people.
The idea is to "nudge" (Cass Sunstein's catchword) consumers into making healthy choices by either restricting unhealthy ones (Michael Bloomberg's proposed ban on large sodas), mandating disclosure of information (the ObamaCare provision mandating calorie counts on chain-restaurant menus), or mandating the manner of disclosure (for example, requiring a product advertised as "90% fat-free" to be reciprocally labeled "10% fat").
Chief of Staff William Daley, who was brought in to help smooth relations with business, and Cass Sunstein, who heads the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, are said to have been sympathetic to the industry point of view that the rule was unnecessary and could impose too many costs in the midst of a struggling economy, according to people familiar with the matter.
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