Oct 30, 2009 what is the relationship between fear, danger, and the law. Sometimes people are fearful when they ought not to be, and sometimes they are fearless when they should be frightened. Beyond the precautionary principle is a major contribution to the field of risk perception written in precisely this spirit. Beyond the precautionary principle, cass sunstein cambridge. Llewellyn distinguished service professor at the university of chicago. Sunstein, 9780521615129, available at book depository with free delivery. Having deconstructed the precautionary principle, sunstein turns to constructing a new set of principles to provide coherent guidance in the face of fear.
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What is the relationship between fear, danger, and the law. Beyond the precautionary principle cambridge university press, 2005. No introduction to the precautionary principle would be complete without brief reference to the difference between the precautionary principle and the precautionary approach. In sunsteins view, the major thing proponents of democratically grounded risk regulation have to fear, in essence, is fear itself. His many books include princeton, 2001 and designing democracy oxford, 2001.
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Analyzes law with reference to new findings in cognitive psychology and behavioral economics. The authors contend that sunstein s critique of the precautionary principle has merit, but that his muchdiscussed laws of fear proposals are deficient in several significant respects. Going beyond groupthink to make better decisions, wednesday february 11, 2015, 12. Sunstein attacks the increasingly influential precautionary principle the idea that regulators should take steps to protect. In democratic nations, the law responds to peoples fears. He is the founder and director of the program on behavioral economics and public policy at harvard law school.
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