"It should work out as a zero sum game, " said Michael Trippit of Oriel Securities.
Krugman dismisses the terrible zero sum generational game we are playing with our kids.
The key work variable is zero-sum vs. non-zero sum (both negative-sum and positive-sum).
NIH's resources are a zero sum game, so expenditures on commercial enterprises inevitably reduce the funding available for basic research.
Game theory suggests that the Indonesian government and the established mining companies in Indonesia will not play a zero sum game.
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The system for computing these payments is zero sum, no new money is being committed, only old money is being shuffled around.
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When does the smart phone market turn into a zero sum game.
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If the business world is a Zero Sum Game, then for every woman who is successful, there is one man who is not.
And one of the major diplomatic problems is both the Iraqi Kurds and the Turks look at relations as a zero sum game.
As the theory goes it is a zero sum game where Third World countries, including those in Latin America, have always been the losers.
"I don't find that interesting, " he said, adding that "most things are not zero sum, " meaning that multiple competitors can do well in any area.
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He said in the UN in September '09, quote, in an era where our destiny is shared power is no longer a zero sum game.
"There is still a strong tendency in Northern Ireland to view politics as a zero sum game, in which there are only winners and losers, " Mr Cameron said.
And in an era of stagnant wages and global competition, opportunity comes to be seen as a zero sum game, in which your dreams come at my expense.
It does not have to be a zero sum game.
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They can lose revenue when they switch passengers to other carriers, but this is a zero sum industry game, and they also take in fees from other airlines to carry their passengers.
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If negotiation is a zero sum game like Monopoly or Scrabble, it requires us to engage in sharp practices, protect our own interests, screw our opponents, and destroy friendly relations.
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The most important things are not zero sum.
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While the search for better investment returns goes on, however, it's important to step back occasionally to appreciate what makes possible a net yield to be fought for instead of a zero sum to be fought over.
What Spatz is calling for is a kind of truce, in which instead of engaging in a zero sum game, all the cholesterol drug makers pay for one single campaign for all their drugs, just getting patients to go in and ask their doctor for treatment.
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The second eternal truth: Success is not a zero-sum game, though most academic economists, pundits and politicians act as if it were--maybe because they vie for glory in zero-sum professions. (There can be only 1 U.S. President and 100 senators, for example.) The third eternal truth: The Golden Rule is more than a spiritual truth, it is a business truth.
All this shifting of wealth is a zero-sum game and the net effect on incomes is usually zero, or even negative.
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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