Cass Sunstein on Sludge, Stagnation, and Dynamism
These remarks were delivered on May 8, 2024 at The Austin Symposium.
Economic Dynamism

The Causal Effect of News on Inflation Expectations
This paper studies the response of household inflation expectations to television news coverage of inflation.
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The Rise of Inflation Targeting
This paper discusses the interactions between politics and economic ideas leading to the adoption of inflation targeting in the United States.

Downtowns are dying, but we know how to save them
Even those who yearn to visit or live in a walkable, dense neighborhood are not going to flock to a place surrounded by a grim urban dystopia.

The Housing Crisis
Soaring housing costs are driving young people towards socialism—only dispersed development and expanded property ownership can preserve liberal democracy.
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California’s Proposed Billionaire Tax and Its Portents for Normal People
The deeper significance of California's billionaire tax is in how it redefines what it means to own property in the United States.

The Civitas Outlook Energy Symposium
Energy policy in America has become, over the past few decades, one of the most fraught debates in American politics.






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