One I believe is his choice of psychology application to a lately established(? see below) government section called Consumer Financial Protection Agency( CFPA) to help US recover from 2009 great depression. Insterestingly I've not found it at US gov website. However, US Chamber of Commerce has established a website to tell mass "STOP the CFPA".
Whatever, this department has an origin deeply rooted in psychology with Nobel Laureate Kahneman's research at the intersection between psychology and economics. It's called behavioral economics in economics or decision making in experimental psychology. And thanks to Kahneman's collaborator Sunstein, a law professor once in Chicago with B. Obama, this field has been introduced to US government.
Further information could be read at websites listed below:
- http://www.douban.co
m/subject/3541320/ (the book "Nudge") - http://www.douban.co
m/subject/4022709/ (the book "Nudge" Chinese) - http://online.wsj.co
m/article/SB12454547 (WSJ)7468032915.html - http://chn.chosun.co
m/site/data/html_dir (Chinese introduction)/2009/06/24/20090624 000030.html
