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Examples of zero-sum

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How to resolve this combination of zero-sum and positive-sum games is a deeply intriguing conundrum.
Here, trade was clearly not limited by a 'zero-sum game', but rather created wealth for all parties involved.
Other interactions are zero-sum, where the gains from better pest management are cancelled out by losses elsewhere.
Whether a language policy is zero-sum or not depends on how it is perceived.
An important underlying assumption of the zero-sum game model is that all non-systematic (diversifiable) risks have been diversified.
It was a zero-sum conflict, which touched upon the policy cores of both antagonistic coalitions.
When the average level of cutbacks is set, the politics of cutbacks turns into a zero-sum game: one's gain is another's loss.
The approach also will show the zero-sum character of the deal.
This is because a zero-sum game is not the format of the exchange.
When benefits and losses are easily visible, many will use zero-sum explanations when social science offers a positivesum explanation.
This zero-sum result occurs because of the assumption that no new productive saving and investment has been induced by this portfolio reallocation process.
Moreover, in crowded policy spaces the quest for autonomy is a zero-sum game.
They are joined together by the similarity of their names, and by the fact that their shared story is a zero-sum game.
This alters a zero-sum game, and language rationalisation need not mean the choice of one language over the other.
Corporatist government involves co-operation between encompassing labour and business federations, previously locked in a zero-sum distributional game.
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