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Basically, a zero sum game, is the kind you're used to in sports, where there's a winner and a loser.

"The pursuit of power among nations must no longer be seen as a zero-sum game, " the president said as he addressed the gathering.

Instead, the British debate assumed Europe was a zero-sum game: anything gained by Brussels had been subtracted from Westminster.

Mr Putin's style is more confrontational, however, and he tends to see international relations in zero-sum terms.

This is often counterproductive and does not generally produce a happy workplace since competition for status is a zero-sum game.

And, you know, I'm happy to say, I think there's really evidence that this non-zero sum kind of connection can expand the moral compass.

In response, movements like the Tea Party promote a zero-sum view of the international economy in which only one country can be prosperous.

Secretary Chu likes to say -- and I love this expression -- "Science is not a zero-sum game. "

One of the few notions from game theory to penetrate the popular culture was the distinction of zero-sum and nonzero -sum games.

He doesn't seem to recognize that trade is not a zero-sum game, in which one party wins and the other loses.

In the long run, participation in the information age may not be a zero sum game, where if some groups win, others must lose.

Achieving a goal is meaningless if it comes without work, if there is no opposition; but that doesn't mean all decisions must be zero-sum.

But he stressed that "pursuit of power is no longer a zero-sum game" and that Georgia and Ukraine were entitled to their sovereignty.

Any form of interdependence , non-zero sum relationship forces you to acknowledge the humanity of people .

The Kremlin sees its relationship with the West as a zero-sum game: if it resurges, America will decline.

They rejected the zero-sum mentality that is at the heart of populism, the belief that economics is a struggle over finite spoils.

So empowering China to deal with its own problems of carbon is good for everybody, and it's not a zero sum, I win, you lose.

In this note, we obtain sufficient conditions that the set of saddle points are convex or closed in two-person zero-sum games.

I reject the notion that China and the United States are engaged in a zero-sum competition, where one side must fall for the other to rise.

This allows the conversation to become a zero-sum game, with a winner and a loser.

Moreover, the competition is essentially zero-sum; the only alternative to total success is humiliating failure.

Moreover, economics is not a zero-sum game: so far, a bigger China has helped to enrich America.

We do not approach United States-China relations as a zero-sum game.

If you ask what kind of a situation is conducive to people becoming friends and allies, the technical answer is a non-zero sum situation.

The zero-sum attitude toward China and its currency is a relic, the legacy of an earlier era when nations defined economic life.

Josiah's cleansing of the Temple was good strategy in a zero-sum game: the less influence these prophets had, the more he had.

In an era when our destiny is shared, power is no longer a zero-sum game.

Globalisation is not a zero-sum game: Mexicans, Koreans and Poles are not growing at the expense of Americans, Japanese and Germans.

And if you ask what kind of situation is conducive to people defining people as enemies, it's kind of a zero sum situation. Okay.

Provincial Satellite TV and CCTV channels, terrestrial channels formed between the 'zero-sum game' viewing pattern of competition.

In the zero-sum game of the drug trade, one gang's loss is another's gain (which is why "drug cartel" is such a misnomer).

In the last chapter, one kind of partially observed linear quadratic non-zero sum differential game problem is studied.

But mutual suspicions of each other's intentions have become deep-rooted. America and China still often play Asia as a zero-sum game.

In his new, zero-sum mode, Muhammad changed the direction of prayer from Jerusalem to Mecca.

The economy is not a zero-sum game in which some people can enjoy higher incomes only if others are made worse off.

It strikes me as a negative, destructive emotion, usually possessed by small-minded individuals who see economics as a zero-sum equation.

Asking it implies that the competition between a region's leading urban centers has to be a zero-sum game.

Foreign exchange has won broad acceptance as a legitimate asset class in recent years, despite the fact it is a zero sum game.

As the President has stated, "Power is not a zero-sum game. "

But the foreign-exchange markets are a zero-sum game: some currencies have to go up.

But they are not undisputed winners either. They are finding that the Internet is, at best, a zero-sum game.

Political compromise and consensus-building, not zero-sum factional infighting , have shaped the rural development and stimulus plans.

An Asia bond would not be a self-centred zero-sum game.

"The rise of others" is by no means a zero sum games for America, America has still the opportunity to lead and shape the world.

I think we will live well. There is no reason to think we will not be competitive, and it is not a zero-sum game.

Integration turned a zero-sum game into a positive-sum game.

Was Josiah, too, driven by a zero-sum worldview in which the worshippers of gods other than Yahweh looked like enemies?

Because after years of stagnation and decline, the mentality of politics is that it's a zero-sum game.

'We should abandon the zero-sum Cold War mentality, ' he said, and 'respect each other's choice of development path. '

The splintering of solidarity within the eurozone has seen a reawakening of zero-sum game nationalism.

Summarising this position, one speaker said: "Compliance is a zero sum gain, irrespective of the cost. "

Gideon Rachman is author of a new book on the politics of globalisation, "Zero-Sum World"

But these caricatures from traditional manufacturers and farmers assume trade and globalisation are zero-sum games.

Zero-sum thinking about political and economic influence on the strategic Korean Peninsula won't suddenly disappear.

Competition in everything from astrophysics to athletics was treated as a zero-sum game.

In my book Zero-Sum Future, written in 2009, I attempted to predict how the global economic crisis would change international politics.

Because ambitions are to some extent incompatible and admiration is a zero-sum game, each city tends to focus on one type of ambition.

China, for its part, still views trade and globalization as a zero-sum game designed to enhance the power and wealth of the Chinese state.

China's quest to enhance its world leadership status and America's effort to maintain its present position is a zero-sum game.

debates and the implicit zero-sum logic of these arguments.

Win-win cooperation -- not zero-sum competition -- is a very achievable goal.

But who will walk the walk as well as they talk the talk in this zero-sum game?

But we accept that because we have recognized that free trade is not a zero-sum game.

Some (inside and outside China) see this as a static zero-sum game for global market share.

The deployment of the golden rule most naturally happens along these non-zero sum channels.

Ultimately then, the attention economy is a zero-sum game. [What one person gets], someone else is denied.

Over the weekend, it has become clear that Lehman is a zero sum game.

Now it's a zero-sum game, with executives and employees essentially taking billions from shareholders.

Other traders were sinking like stones in the zero-sum market game at the same moment Dennis was flying high.

American leaders are right to reject zero-sum logic in public.

This is not quite a zero sum game: the global economy is, after all, expanding healthily at present.

At any time, one side wants to settle but the other doesn't; and both sides treat them (wrongly) as a zero-sum game.

The biggest challenges arise where zero-sum outcomes are more likely.

"This is not a zero-sum game, " says Kate Gordon, vice president for energy policy at the Center for American Progress.

A zero-sum economy leads, inevitably, to repression at home and plunder abroad.

In zero-sum games whatever hurts the other guy is good for you.

But even if innovation is the key to global competitiveness, it is not necessarily a zero sum game.

A zero-sum game is a type of game wherein one player can gain only at the expense of another player.

Instead, they would increasingly judge their relationships in zero-sum terms.

Though he generally praises the report, he says that shifting spending from teenagers to babies reflects an unhealthy zero-sum mentality.

"In zero-sum games you always try to hide your strategy, " says Axelrod.

The key, it suggests, is to arrange things so that relations between Muslims and Jews are conspicuously non-zero-sum.

power is no longer a zero sum game.

And that is why the pursuit of power among nations must no longer be seen as a zero-sum game.

If counterparties pay up, CDSs are a zero-sum game: what the seller loses, the buyer gains.

Economic growth, like trade, is not a zero-sum game.

If our relations are defined by win-win solutions rather than zero-sum rivalries, we will thrive and prosper together.

This is not and should not be a zero-sum game relationship.

Globalisation need not be a zero-sum game.

"My job is to prove your zero-sum thesis wrong, " he told me.

But in the 21st century, it does not make sense to apply the zero-sum 19th century theories of how major powers interact.

Neither zero-sum nor game is the choice of the state or society.

It has been framed as a zero-sum game between China and the world.

You have obviously grasped that this is a zero-sum game with two to four players.

I don't really see the economic relationship between China and the US as a zero-sum game.

But higher commodity prices are a zero-sum game; for every winner, there is a loser.

Memory management is ultimately a zero-sum game of tradeoffs.

Fourth, while climate change could help spur the world into resource nationalism and zero-sum competition, it could also do the opposite.

The euro crisis has seen the process recast as a zero sum game.

"So we don't see this relationship as a zero sum one. "

This is the lesson of our history: Our economy is not a zero-sum game.

Sport has something else in common with war. It is zero-sum. What one gains, the other loses.

But in the zero-sum jungle of the currency market, that means somebody out there is winning.

During 2011, zero-sum logic will bedevil international relations.

It's a hard life being a Chinese strategist, obliged to look at the world in zero-sum terms.

In a war, two allies are playing a non-zero sum game.

How do we define our national interests so that it's not just zero sum, but positive sum.

Finally, unlike a lot of things in life, packing a suitcase really is a zero-sum game.

This change marks a sharp departure from the zero-sum mentality of the past.

But quota reform is not a zero sum game.

On balance, I think history is a net positive in the non-zero-sum game department.

We've adapted to a zero-sum system when I went back to start AQ40, and I totally loved it.

China's growth is not a zero-sum game.

So we certainly hope we could also find a modus vivendi between Taiwan and the mainland based not on zero-sum game, but on pragmatism.

World AD and world growth are not a zero sum game.

Economic growth is not zero-sum.

It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses.

A zero-sum world may summon up rather darker forces.

Hesitate and they would be toast in the zero-sum market game.

Many people believe in the zero-sum concept that wherever there are winners there must be losers.

This is not a zero-sum game where Wall Street loses and Main Street wins.

Happily, after the exile, life got more non-zero-sum.

With zero sum channels you would expect something else.

So forget about gender war and zero-sum games.

Life is not a zero-sum game.

Well, that's just another term for non-zero sum.

BL: It's not a perfect zero-sum game.

A win-win world is giving way to a zero-sum world.

And there are non-zero sum relationships that maybe people aren't aware of.

It can take time for people, having seen that they are playing a non-zero-sum game, to adjust their attitudes accordingly.

It's about zero sum and non-zero-sum games.

There need be no patsy , because the economy is not a zero-sum game.

Is the stock market a zero-sum game?

But the forex game, unlike the real economy, is zero-sum.

And so the mentality has to shift from zero-sum to positive-sum before you can get a productive politics.

There is a sense that when foreigners make money in China, it is a zero sum game and that China itself is somehow diminished.

It is not a zero-sum game.

And the world is full of non-zero sum dynamics.

"This is a zero-sum game between wages and profits, " he points out.

the zero-sum (or constant-sum) principle (Luhmann 1975, p. 52).

So, there are lots of non-zero sum games in real life.

The world economy isn't a zero sum game.

I think people often take a zero-sum view of the world when they shouldn't.

It's a zero sum game, wwwmebody wins, wwwmebody loses.

That's a non-zero sum game.

Nor is it sensible to revive Russia's old anti-Western, zero-sum strategic thinking.

And in real life, there are lots of non-zero sum games.

It isn't a zero-sum game.

It will not survive a German decision to play the same zero-sum game.

you write as if you and solos have been playing roulette. but financial markets are not a zero-sum game;

Blogging, for example, is not a zero-sum game.

We are always constantly playing the zero sum game.

More broadly, we should think about the fact that time is a zero-sum game.

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And given that interconnection, power in the 21st century is no longer a zero-sum game;

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Following zero-sum logic Xie expostulates that China's inflation will be great news for the US:

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