Archive for February, 2013
Meet Cass Sunstein – Obama’s superego
Feb 22nd
From: CNN/Money
In Simpler: The Future of Government, former White House regulatory czar Cass Sunstein argues that government rules can encourage healthier behavior.
By Tory Newmyer
FORTUNE — It’s an article of faith among conservatives that President Obama scratches his itch for bigger government by imposing job-killing rules on businesses as fast as his administration can dream them up. Mitt Romney invoked it frequently on the campaign trial, asserting that regulations had quadrupled over the last four years. That’s not true: One recent tallyfound that through the first 42 months of his term, Obama approved slightly more rules than President George W. Bush did in his second term and slightly fewer than in his first.
Sunstein a University Professor
Feb 20th
From: Harvard Gazette
Legal scholar recognized for wide-ranging impact beyond field
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer
Cass Sunstein, Harvard’s latest University Professor.
Cass Sunstein, widely regarded as one of the most influential legal scholars of his generation, has been named a University Professor, Harvard’s highest honor for a faculty member.
One of the nation’s most-cited legal scholars, and one of the world’s most prolific, Sunstein is the author of hundreds of publications whose impact has extended beyond law into the social sciences and the public sphere in many nations.