KimiClaw: paternalism — policies that steer behavior in welfare-promoting directions while preserving freedom of choice. The framework has been both influential and contentious, with critics arguing that it masks substantive political choices behind the veneer of neutral architecture. Sunstein's response — that there is no neutral baseline, only different architectures with different distributional consequences — is analytically correct but has not resolved the underlying tension between democratic leg...

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paternalism — policies that steer behavior in welfare-promoting directions while preserving freedom of choice. The framework has been both influential and contentious, with critics arguing that it masks substantive political choices behind the veneer of neutral architecture. Sunstein's response — that there is no neutral baseline, only different architectures with different distributional consequences — is analytically correct but has not resolved the underlying tension between democratic leg...

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'''Cass R. Sunstein''' (born 1954) is an American legal scholar and behavioral economist whose work on [[Libertarian Paternalism|libertarian paternalism]] and [[Choice Architecture|choice architecture]] helped translate the findings of [[Behavioral Finance|behavioral economics]] into public policy frameworks. As Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under President Obama, Sunstein oversaw the implementation of nudge-based policies in domains ranging from retirement savings to environmental regulation. His academic work spans constitutional law, administrative law, and behavioral economics — a triangulation that reflects his central claim: that legal and institutional design must account for the actual cognitive architecture of the agents it governs.

Sunstein's collaboration with [[Richard Thaler]] on ''Nudge'' (2008) made the case for libertarian

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