I’ve observed a troubling pattern in many people’s lives. They operate from a zero-sum mentality, believing that for them to win, someone else must lose. Then they wonder why they remain stuck at zero ...

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 ...

Chess, a zero-sum game, here seen played at a strategy session at Camp David in 1978 between the Israeli prime minister and the US National Security Advisor. The concept of zero-sum thinking ...

I didn’t put a stake in the ground when my cofounders and I started DMi Partners and proclaim that our company was not going to be built on a zero-sum culture. At some point in the last few years, ...

Zero-sum thinking has spread like a mind virus, from geopolitics to pop culture. Credit...Photo illustration by Pablo Delcan Supported by By Damien Cave Damien covers global affairs. He is based in ...

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 ...

This is the introduction to Blighty, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter in which our correspondents turn their gaze on the latest developments in Britain. Sign up for Blighty. Matthew Holehouse, our ...

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 ...

Is global growth a win for all? Discover how understanding zero-sum and non-zero-sum dynamics can help investors and policymakers make smarter decisions. Is global growth a win for all, or just a win ...