In recent years, researchers have increasingly focused on zero-sum thinking, namely the widespread belief that economic, ...

To paraphrase (again) the British politician and historian Thomas Babington Macaulay: People always think that life has been improving — up until their own time, that is. Somehow they don’t expect ...

In the 1987 Oliver Stone classic Wall Street, Michael Douglas’ role as the brazen corporate raider, Gordon Gekko, not only won the actor an Oscar for his performance but iconized his character as the ...

hat unites Reform, Your Party and the Greens? They all benefit from, and propagate, a zero-sum approach to politics. In its ...

China has been reiterating its resolution to adhere to the path of peaceful development and win-win, open diplomacy in recent years, pushing back against groundless claims of a "China threat." However ...

Political and policy debates should promote shared progress for American children. Zero-Sum Thinking Hurts Education Are political and policy questions primarily a zero-sum game – a matter of winners ...

Some situations in life are zero-sum. On Super Bowl Sunday, two teams take the field but only one will emerge victorious, Vince Lombardi Trophy in hand. In a presidential election, only one candidate ...

Despite the fact that it’s common knowledge that just in the U.S. $1 trillion of annual revenues will shift from one set of players to another over the next decade, the vast majority of efforts at ...

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For Donald Trump, calling someone a loser is not merely an insult, and calling someone a winner is not merely a compliment. The division of the world into those who win and those who lose is of ...