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jasonfurman's review against another edition
5.0
A very short collection of Sunstein's Bloomberg Views columns (he calls them "essays"), they generally focus on behavioral economics and the formation of opinion, with an emphasis on how groups reinforce each others views and ways in which information can or cannot help--the answer being that more information even if contrary gets rejected and strengthens an extremist worldview, while asking people to explain why they think what they do they become more humble and less extreme (asking them to justify their view does not work, need to focus on explaining). Also the columns have some of the more familiar behavioral economics around, for example, defaults. And all of it is catchily written and well tied to various current events and cultural phenomenon rather than just being abstract. A good short introduction to these topics.
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