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Cass R. Sunstein is a legal scholar and the author and coauthor of several books including Nudge which he coauthored with Richard Thaler. Sunstein served as a top administrator in the Obama White House and is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University.

Olivier Sibony is a fellow at Oxford University, a former senior partner at McKinsey & Company, and the author of You’re About to Make a Terrible Mistake!

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