Cass Sunstein

Sherwin was also my advisor. I came to him with an idea for a thesis topic on the value of saving lives, which, uh, nudged him to develop the theory in the 1st paper Luis cites. He was a lovable curmudgeon and a world-class "slow" thinker. Life is not a race.

This on the great Sherwin Rosen fantastic from Luis. We need to celebrate Sherwin more. Intellectually had some truly amazing papers. He was Superstar. During my PhD, I really loved his classes and was planning to discuss research with him, but he passed away. He was always very kind and humorous. One of the most memorable moments was when he and his wife hosted me for dinner at their place in Palo Alto (I was visiting Becker at Hoover). Not typical and I was uneasy, but it was so relaxed. But I'll never forget that he once sat next to me in a seminar I was scribbling (I'd tuned out of the seminar, doing my own thing), and he laughed and joked that something was wrong in my math. I knew he had been diagnosed already and here he was in his lighthearted self. He died shortly after. I later dedicated a paper to him, I think appropriately about Superstars (I'll post it in the reply to this).