{"id":3263,"date":"2020-04-24T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=3263"},"modified":"2020-04-24T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T21:15:00","slug":"sunstein-on-the-meaning-of-masks-casssunstein-harvard_law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2020\/04\/24\/sunstein-on-the-meaning-of-masks-casssunstein-harvard_law\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunstein on The Meaning of Masks @CassSunstein @Harvard_Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cass Sunstein, Harvard Law School, is publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3571428&amp;dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_law,:norms:informal:order:ejournal_abstractlink\">The Meaning of Masks<\/a> in the Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy. Here is the abstract.<\/p>\n<div class=\"reference-info\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Many incentives are monetary, and when private or public institutions seek to change behavior, it is natural to change monetary incentives. But many other incentives are a product of social meanings, about which people may not much deliberate, but which can operate as subsidies or as taxes. In some times and places, for example the social meaning of smoking has been positive, increasing the incentive to smoke; in other times and places, it has been negative, and thus served to reduce smoking. With respect to safety and health, social meanings change radically over time, and they can be dramatically different in one place from what they are in another. Often people live in accordance with meanings that they deplore, or at least wish were otherwise. But it is exceptionally difficult for individuals to alter meanings on their own. Alteration of meanings can come from law, which may, through a mandate, transform the meaning of action into a bland, \u201cI comply with law,\u201d or into a less bland, \u201cI am a good citizen.\u201d Alteration of social meanings can also come from large-scale private action, engineered or promoted by \u201cmeaning entrepreneurs,\u201d who can turn the meaning of action from, \u201cI am an oddball,\u201d to, \u201cI do my civic duty,\u201d or, \u201cI protect others from harm.\u201d Sometimes subgroups rebel against new or altered meanings, produced by law or meaning entrepreneurs, but often those meanings stick and produce significant change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Download the essay from SSRN at the link.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=HedgehogsFoxes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cass Sunstein, Harvard Law School, is publishing The Meaning of Masks in the Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy. Here is the abstract. &nbsp; Many incentives are monetary, and when private or public institutions&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-3263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-culture","tag-news"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pasVL2-QD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3264,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions\/3264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}