The key work variable is zero-sum vs. non-zero sum (both negative-sum and positive-sum).
The second eternal truth: Success is not a zero-sum game, though most academic economists, pundits and politicians act as if it were--maybe because they vie for glory in zero-sum professions. (There can be only 1 U.S. President and 100 senators, for example.) The third eternal truth: The Golden Rule is more than a spiritual truth, it is a business truth.
The virtue of HSAs, however, goes well beyond this semi-zero-sum mentality: The way health care is delivered will change as providers find it in their best interest to come up with inno-vative breakthroughs.
Fixing Sales and Marketing begins with dropping the classic definitions of what Sales and Marketing are suppose to do along with the internal tug-of-war associated the zero-sum game mentality.
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In a profession offering a limited number of powerful slots--100 senators, 50 governors, 1 President--politicians live in a zero-sum world, where the gains of one necessarily come at the expense of others.
If hedge-fund managers are playing a zero-sum game, what is their social utility?
All this shifting of wealth is a zero-sum game and the net effect on incomes is usually zero, or even negative.
BBVA, which acquired first-e, says that the Internet is at best a zero-sum game for banks.
Unlike 3-D however, Immerz is an additive, rather than zero-sum game.
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But currencies tend to be zero-sum games over time, and gold, arguably, is a lousy store of wealth.
This is the lesson of our history: Our economy is not a zero-sum game.
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Washington sees Social Security reform as a zero-sum gain-if someone gains, someone else loses.
But this study offers a little elasticity to what can feel like a zero-sum situation.
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Venture capitalists, including Andreessen, are quick to point out their business is not a zero-sum game.
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This zero-sum mentality ignores the positive dynamism that comes from accountability to parents and teachers.
Possibly partly at the cost of others (but remember: economics is not a zero-sum game).
Why are people, politicians especially, inclined to see the global economy as a zero-sum game?
Rather than seeking to come out on top in zero-sum games, millennials strive for consensus.
He called his sad new book The Zero-Sum Society: Distribution and the Possibilities for Economic Change.
If counterparties pay up, CDSs are a zero-sum game: what the seller loses, the buyer gains.
Though it may be an individual sport, parkour is neither a solitary activity nor a zero-sum game.
But was this perhaps a zero-sum game, making equity less risky only by making debt more risky?
This is a model of a zero-sum game with only the top teams as eventual winners.
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We may not return specifically to mercantilist models, but whatever comes next will share the essential zero-sum feature.
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But a filibuster over a nominee is a zero-sum game: you cannot change the shape of a person.
But let me stress that this is not a zero-sum game where Wall Street loses and Main Street wins.
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But this devolves into a zero-sum game between Craigslist and its advertisers, i.e.
As inventor Dean Kamen says, economic trade is no longer a zero-sum game.
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