Decisions and Social Norms

This pathbreaking book casts new light on how to handle life’s most difficult decisions. Edna Ullmann-Margalit and Cass R. Sunstein examine the role of social norms in creating both stability and instability, while offering an in-depth exploration of why people choose not to choose.

Ullmann-Margalit and Sunstein evaluate the identifiable strategies people use when confronted with difficult problems, such as delegating, adhering to firm rules, adopting presumptions, and taking small, reversib...