“If the prospect of a bad result gets the heart racing - a plane crash, a terrible disease, a loss of 30 percent of your portfolio - most people will take strong steps to avoid it. They will pay too little attention to a comforting thought, which is that worst-case scenarios usually don't come to fruition.”

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About Cass Sunstein

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.

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