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  • The Price of Happiness

    Behavioral Economics and Willingness to Pay

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    People often 'miswant.' They buy goods that do not make them happy and refuse to buy goods that would make their lives better. In The Price of Happiness, Cass R. Sunstein focuses on people's 'willingness to pay,' which is the foundation for free markets. He argues that willingness to pay deserves respect, and high honors in the annals of history, when buyers know what they are getting. It's when ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Wiser

    Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter

    by Cass R. Sunstein, Reid Hastie ...
    Why are group decisions so hard?Since the beginning of human history, people have made decisions in groups—first in families and villages, and now as part of companies, governments, school boards, religious organizations, or any one of countless other groups. And having more than one person to help decide is good because the group benefits from the collective knowledge of all of its members, and ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Manipulation

    What It Is, Why It's Bad, What to Do About It

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    New technologies are offering companies, politicians, and others unprecedented opportunity to manipulate us. Sometimes we are given the illusion of power - of freedom - through choice, yet the game is rigged, pushing us in specific directions that lead to less wealth, worse health, and weaker democracy. In, Manipulation, nudge theory pioneer and New York Times bestselling author, Cass Sunstein, ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Law and Leviathan

    Redeeming the Administrative State

    by Cass R. Sunstein, Adrian Vermeule ...
    Winner of the Scribes Book Award“As brilliantly imaginative as it is urgently timely.”—Richard H. Fallon, Jr., Harvard Law School“At no time more than the present, a defense of expertise-based governance and administration is sorely needed, and this book provides it with gusto.”—Frederick Schauer, author of The ProofA highly original framework for restoring confidence in a government b... ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Climate Justice

    What Rich Nations Owe the World—and the Future

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    The social cost of carbon: The most important number you've never heard of—and what it means.If you're injuring someone, you should stop—and pay for the damage you've caused. Why, this book asks, does this simple proposition, generally accepted, not apply to climate change? In Climate Justice, a bracing challenge to status-quo thinking on the ethics of climate change, renowned author and legal ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Too Much Information

    Understanding What You Don’t Want to Know

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    Narrated by Tristan Morris ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 1 min

    The bestselling author and recipient of the 2018 Holberg Prize, Cass R. Sunstein, explores how more information can make us happy or miserable, and why we sometimes avoid it—but sometimes seek it out.How much information is too much? Do we need to know how many calories are in the giant vat of popcorn that we bought on our way into the movie theater? Do we want to know if we are genetically ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Separation of Powers

    How to Preserve Liberty in Troubled Times

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    **Why the separation of powers is essential to liberty and democracy.From the winner of the Holberg Prize and New York Times–bestselling author of The World According to Star Wars.**All over the world, people are questioning the separation of powers. They want a strong man, able to do what must be done. But James Madison was right to say this: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • How Change Happens

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    An “illuminating” study that reveals the different ways social change occurs—for readers of Freakonomics and Thinking, Fast and Slow (The New York Times)How does social change happen? When do social movements take off? Sexual harassment was once something that women had to endure; now a movement has risen up against it. White nationalist sentiments, on the other hand, were largely kept out of ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Can It Happen Here?

    Authoritarianism in America

    Edited by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    . . . Or has it already? Experts in law, politics, and other fields discuss the state of American freedom—and its precarious future.With the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump, many on both the left and right feared that America's 240-year-old grand experiment in democracy was coming to an end, and that Sinclair Lewis' satirical novel It Can't Happen Here, written during the dark days of the 1930s, ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Going to Extremes

    How Like Minds Unite and Divide

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    Why do people become extremists? What makes people become so dismissive of opposing views? Why is political and cultural polarization so pervasive in America? In Going to Extremes, renowned legal scholar and best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein offers startling insights into why and when people gravitate toward extremism. Sunstein marshals a wealth of evidence that shows that when like-minded ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Going to Extremes

    How Like Minds Unite and Divide

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    Why do people become extremists? What makes people become so dismissive of opposing views? Why is political and cultural polarization so pervasive in America? In Going to Extremes, renowned legal scholar and best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein offers startling insights into why and when people gravitate toward extremism. Sunstein marshals a wealth of evidence that shows that when like-minded ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The World According to Star Wars

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER#1 Washington Post BestsellerThere's Santa Claus, Shakespeare, Mickey Mouse, the Bible, and then there's Star Wars. Nothing quite compares to sitting down with a young child and hearing the sound of John Williams's score as those beloved golden letters fill the screen. In this fun, erudite, and often moving book, Cass R. Sunstein explores the lessons of Star Wars as they ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook