Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during a public swearing-in ceremony for Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026, on the steps of City Hall in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa) The two ...

Patricia Andrews Fearon and Friedrich M. Götz from Stanford University and the University of Cambridge have published an important article entitled “The Zero-Sum Mindset”, in which they present the ...

Some situations in life are zero-sum. On Super Bowl Sunday, two teams take the field but only one will emerge victorious, Vince Lombardi Trophy in hand. In a presidential election, only one candidate ...

For all the talk of Zohran Mamdani as the new face of the Democratic Party, Gotham on his watch will likely revert to business as usual.

A glass colourful brain illumintaed on a background of cubes that are like switches illuminated Zero-sum thinking, the mentality that one person’s gain must come at the expense of another person’s ...

Allison Schrager is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering economics. A senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, she is author of “An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to ...

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 ...

Zero-sum thinking is outdated. The future of growth is inclusive, abundant and collective. Unsplash+ Our economic narrative has been hijacked by a dangerous falsehood: the notion that the economy is ...

A zero-sum mentality, where one person's gain is another's loss, hinders progress and cooperation. Shifting to an "abundance mindset" fosters collaboration and mutual benefit, like investing in ...