“If the air quality is terrible in Los Angeles, if a particular university is unusually expensive, if crime is on the rise in Dallas, or if a company has a lot of recalled toys, transparency can spur change. Whenever public or private institutions have to answer to the public, their performance is likely to improve.”

American legal scholar and author

Cass Robert Sunstein is an American legal scholar and author. He served from 2009 to 2012 as administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration. His work ranges across U.S. constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and behavioral economics. He is also the co-author of Nudge (2008) and the author of The World According to Star Wars (2016), a New York Times best seller.