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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

In recent years, researchers have increasingly focused on zero-sum thinking, namely the widespread belief that economic, social, or political gains for one group can only be achieved at the expense of ...

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 ...

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, ...