These were the questions we addressed in a large study at the Social Economics Lab at Harvard, where we focus on how people ...

Opinion: Tax Foundation's Sean Bray says ongoing battles over the global minimum tax are stifling foreign direct investment ...

The zero-sum thinker frames the world in terms of winning and losing, us and them. If one person is to get richer, someone else must get poorer. If China is doing well, then the US must logically ...

For zero-sum thinking and scapegoating are the basis for Trump’s tariff policy. ... North Korea, and Iran, where rulers attribute their countries’ problems to sanctions imposed by the West.

For zero-sum thinking and scapegoating are the basis for Trump’s tariff policy. ... North Korea, and Iran, where rulers attribute their countries’ problems to sanctions imposed by the West.

Zero-sum thinking is showing up everywhere — tainting the politics of immigration and trade, environmental policy and national security. If left unchecked, it will surely undercut the United ...

In his Sept. 5 Thursday Opinion column, “The risks of doubling down on zero-sum thought,” Eduardo Porter described an addiction that’s everywhere. Take the health and health-care inequities ...

The sum of our outcomes is zero. In this view, everything is a battle where only one can come out ahead. This concept seems especially prevalent in commercial real estate transactions when the ...

In a zero-sum game, by contrast, the total rewards are fixed, so every gain comes at someone’s expense — one person getting more pie means another gets less.

ZERO SUM: The Arc of International Business in Russia | By Charles Hecker | Oxford University Press | 458 pp. | $34.99 A version of this article appears in print on , Page 18 of the Sunday Book ...