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 ...

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 ...

"Both zero-sum thinking and health inequities are characteristic of U.S. healthcare. Today more than ever, we must overcome both, to make everyone healthier. In this new paper, we fundamentally ...

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Zero-sum thinking, the mentality that one person’s gain must come at the expense of another person’s loss, has dominated business, politics, and society for decades. Tech disruption has repeatedly ...

Allison Schrager is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering economics. A senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, she is author of “An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to ...

New Nature Medicine paper details how health inequities harm everyone, counters 4 fallacies of zero-sum health thinking, urges new collective action to advance healthcare reforms WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, ...