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.
BBVA, which acquired first-e, says that the Internet is at best a zero-sum game for banks.
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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The Kremlin sees its relationship with the West as a zero-sum game: if it resurges, America will decline.
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.
If hedge-fund managers are playing a zero-sum game, what is their social utility?
But let me stress that this is not a zero-sum game where Wall Street loses and Main Street wins.
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That dysfunction resides comfortably within a zero-sum worldview, which the president touts in a purposeful cadence throughout the oped.
But this devolves into a zero-sum game between Craigslist and its advertisers, i.e.
And he was asserting his belief that the United States and China are economic rivals in a zero-sum game.
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The key work variable is zero-sum vs. non-zero sum (both negative-sum and positive-sum).
As inventor Dean Kamen says, economic trade is no longer a zero-sum game.
"Eventually it will turn into a zero-sum game or a lot closer to that, " Jobs said of the smartphone market.
And just this past week, Rice said Russia seems to think and act in the zero-sum terms of another era.
Today, with communication and travel easier than ever before, what keeps people apart increasingly are distrust, fear, and zero-sum mindsets.
To move to the Collaborative stage, both groups need to understand and accept that their relationship is not a zero-sum game.
The burdens of this zero-sum-gain strategy will fall most painfully upon low-income consumers and small-profit-margin businesses who can least afford them.
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