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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Zero-sum thinking, the mentality that one person’s gain must come at the expense of another person’s loss, has dominated business, ...

Zero-sum thinking is the mindset that believes that the gains of a group are the losses of another. This mindset is on the rise in the US and other countries and carries important implications for ...

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 ...

Chess, a zero-sum game, here seen played at a strategy session at Camp David in 1978 between the Israeli prime minister and the US National Security Advisor. The concept of zero-sum thinking ...

Patricia Andrews Fearon and Friedrich M. Götz from Stanford University and the University of Cambridge have published an important article entitled “The Zero-Sum Mindset”, in which they present the ...

Do you think about the world as “zero-sum,” where resources are limited and my gain is your loss? Or do you believe that resources are plentiful and we all can benefit from one another’s success? The ...

One idea unites the left and right lately: a zero-sum view of the world. Unfortunately, nice as it would be to hail a rare instance of ideological harmony, both sides are very much mistaken. Perhaps ...

People believe that a situation is zero-sum when one person's success entails that other people are less well-off. New ...

The editorial headline “Law enforcement is not a zero-sum equation” (In Our View, Nov. 21) confounds me. One repeatedly sees this phrase “a zero sum game” being used in the media. I ask myself ...

“It's not a question of enough, pal. It's a zero-sum game: somebody wins, somebody loses.” – Gordon Gekko, Wall Street Advertisement Article continues below this ad In the 1987 Oliver Stone classic ...