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 ...

I’ve observed a troubling pattern in many people’s lives. They operate from a zero-sum mentality, believing that for them to win, someone else must lose. Then they wonder why they remain stuck at zero ...

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, ...

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 research suggests believe in zero-sum changes with age.

This is the introduction to Blighty, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter in which our correspondents turn their gaze on the latest developments in Britain. Sign up for Blighty. Matthew Holehouse, our ...

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, ...

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 ...