Who is Cass Sunstein?
When Sunstein’s nomination was announced at the beginning of the year, the Center for Progressive Reform, fretted that the Harvard scholar’s “track record on regulatory issues is decidedly conservative.” Frank O’Donnell, the president of Clean Air Watch, argued that the deregulation-minded Sunstein “shouldn’t get a pass just because he was nominated by Obama.”
Their concern: Sunstein’s long record of academic writings urging more stringent review of the business impact of government regulation. In works like The Cost-Benefit State, Risk and Reason, Laws of Fear, and Worst-Case Scenarios, Sunstein has argued for strict cost-benefit analysis of government regulations. Ironically – given that Beck and others would later accuse Sunstein of environmentalist fanaticism – Sunstein’s most recent work has debunked the “precautionary principle,” the ultra-strict regulatory standard that European agencies have invoked to justify bans on genetically modified plants.
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