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 ...

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 ...

Activist and author Heather McGee has a sincere plea for white Americans: Stop seeing race in America as a zero-sum game. As McGhee explains in her New York Times bestseller, “The Sum of Us: What ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rather, I now see that he was simply expressing zero-sum thinking. I win/you lose. “You’re fired!” I win/you lose. I recently heard a Republican say, “Politics is a zero-sum game.” What does that MEAN ...

It’s too easily ignored that macroeconomics is a myth, a false notion presuming that what we call an “economy” is a living, breathing, tangible blob. In reality, an economy is just individuals.