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...many Americans may suffer a moment of sticker shock from the conclusions of the CSBA report and similar assessments from the Government Accounting Office (GAO) and Congressional Research Service (CRS), which make clear that the nearly $1 trillion already spent is only a down payment on the war's long-term costs. The trillion-dollare figure does not, for example, include long-term health care for veterans, thousands of whom have suffered crippling wounds, or the interest payments on the money borrowed by the Federal Government to fund the war. The bottom lines of the three assessments vary: the CSBA...
...When you make the move to Cambridge in fall of 2008, you will be leading a new program on risk regulation. What is this program about? CRS: The idea is that a lot of the problems the nation and world are now confronting are really about risk. Examples include natural disasters, infectious diseases, climate change, terrorism and nuclear proliferation. There are common questions that cut across these issues—how do humans actually think about risk? When do our thoughts go into the long term, that is, when do we consider the future? How can we get our legal...
...currently the most cited law professor in the country. How much have you written and how do you have the time? CRS: I’m too scared to see how much. I am sure I have written more than 12 books and pretty sure I have written more than 150 law review articles, but I don’t keep a count. I can write in crevices—meaning that if I have a half an hour between a class and meeting I can write in it. I don’t actually work very long hours...
...What did University of Chicago Law School Dean Saul Levmore mean in a Chicago Maroon article about your departure when he said that “there are a couple of personal reasons” for your decision to leave? CRS: I have been at University of Chicago for over two decades. I love the place and I have no problems with my longtime home. When people leave one institution, often there is a sense of dissatisfaction with that institution and I don’t have that. In terms of a career, it can be good to go someplace...
...What are you working on right now? CRS: I am most excited about a book called “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness,” which I co-authored with Richard Thaler. The basic idea of the book is that humans are amazing in many ways but cutting edge social science shows that we blunder and that our blunders make us poorer, less happy, and less healthy. The good news is that we are nudgeable through acts by private companies and governments. We can be nudged in directions that make us less poor, happier...