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 ...
To paraphrase (again) the British politician and historian Thomas Babington Macaulay: People always think that life has been improving — up until their own time, that is. Somehow they don’t expect ...
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 ...
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hat unites Reform, Your Party and the Greens? They all benefit from, and propagate, a zero-sum approach to politics. In its worst moments, Labour gets dragged into a similar mindset. But to beat ...
The zero-sum fallacy is the idea that there is a fixed pie and if one person gets more that means the other person gets less. This is the way most people think about negotiation, but it couldn't be ...
I probably shouldn’t admit this, but I have dual loyalties. Don’t get me wrong, I am a Trojan through and through — but I would be lying if I said that no part of me still feels like a Wolverine. I ...
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