The zero-sum fallacy is the idea that there is a fixed pie and if one person gets more that means the other person gets less. This is the way most people think about negotiation, but it couldn't be ...

A recent working paper charts the surprising politics of zero-sum thinking—or the belief that one individual or group's gain is another's loss—with a goal of offering fresh insight into our nation's ...

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 ...

Zero-sum thinking is outdated. The future of growth is inclusive, abundant and collective. Unsplash+ Our economic narrative has been hijacked by a dangerous falsehood: the notion that the economy is ...

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 ...

I didn’t put a stake in the ground when my cofounders and I started DMi Partners and proclaim that our company was not going to be built on a zero-sum culture. At some point in the last few years, ...

A new study highlights the power of zero-sum thinking as a determinant of political views - and also should lead some to rethink immigration. A new study just published by the prestigious American ...

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 ...

Many aspects of life fall into the general category of zero-sum situations, in which a benefit to one person requires that others suffer a loss. Obviously, we structure sporting events as zero-sum, so ...

LOOK at the news or social media these days, and you might see a pattern. Stories are about groups in conflict, competing for limited resources, with the gains for some framed as losses for others. If ...

Zero-sum thinking has spread like a mind virus, from geopolitics to pop culture. Credit...Photo illustration by Pablo Delcan Supported by By Damien Cave Damien covers global affairs. He is based in ...