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On Rumours

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141044293

  • Length: 112  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 200g

  • RRP: £9.99

On Rumours

  • How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done

Sunstein explores the human propensity for gossip and storytelling, and discusses how our fears and hopes can work against common sense. He also investigates the way that the internet can entrench our false beliefs even deeper, and how the wish to conform, our natural biases and even our basic emotions can cause us to fall for untrue accounts.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141044293

  • Length: 112  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 200g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • Makes for some uncomfortable reading

    Telegraph

  • Gives long shrift to loose talk

    The Times Higher Education Supplement

  • Thought-provoking ... extremely relevant

    Scotsman

  • Compelling ... full of insights

    Guardian

  • More than just a book: it's a manifesto

    Prospect

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About the Author

Cass R Sunstein

Richard H. Thaler is the Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics and the director of the Center for Decision Research at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2017.

Cass R Sunstein

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