When the great scholar W.E.B. Du Bois wrote about the “wage” ordinary white people received for holding up the edifice of racial hierarchy, he meant it as both real and almost unbelievably paltry.

Abstract: In this article, a reinforcement learning-based single-loop iteration scheme is developed to address the zero-sum game problem for nonlinear Markov jump systems (MJSs), where the ...

Young people now blame capitalism for poverty, racism, high prices, even climate change. They listen to people like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.), who says, "Capitalism…is the absolute ...

Ian Shapiro argues that democracy depends on spreading the wealth. But Christians are equipped to live in love, not fear. The fall of the Berlin wall in November 1989 and the subsequent collapse of ...

A new study highlights the power of zero-sum thinking as a determinant of political views - and also should lead some to rethink immigration. A new study just published by the prestigious American ...

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 ...

Billionaire Ray Dalio believes risk-averse investors should look to one safe asset class when navigating the “zero-sum” markets. Dalio, who founded the asset management firm Bridgewater Associates, ...

I am now in my 80s, and I reflect on the times when I used to enjoy politics. Then, if the nation faced a real problem, the political parties could reach a compromise and find a solution. Perhaps no ...

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Beliefs about whether the world is a zero-sum or a positive-sum environment vary across individuals and cultures, and affect people’s willingness to work, invest, and cooperate with others. We model ...