That's a non zero sum game.

So control is no longer a zero sum game.

We are always, constantly playing the zero sum game.

So this is not a zero sum game in anyway.

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

A sound policy framework should approach reform holistically regional players should tackle the development challenge as a positive sum game, building on achievements to promote a dialogue to defuse regional tensions.

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

Either way, your fortunes add up to zero. That's a zero sum game.

Non zero sum games in which correlations can be positive, OK.

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

Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.

In the Greek German confrontation, it is easy, at least in theory, to design such a positive sum game. All we must do is ignore political rhetoric and focus on the economic outcomes that the protagonists really want.

Peace has come to Northern Ireland because both sides realized that the zero sum game couldn't work.

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

In a world where borders are more porous than ever to everything from drugs to infectious diseases to terrorism, America must help build international coalitions and institutions to address shared threats and challenges. In this sense, power becomes a positive sum game.

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

Quite often in confrontational situations, people and politicians create a zero sum game culture, which results in authoritarian and militaristic leadership. We in the former PASOK government instead helped create a more positive framework by declaring our commitment to work for consensus, thereby creating the basis for trust and mutual understanding.

But there are these, what we call, positive feedbacks, the synergies among them that make the whole vastly greater than the sum of the parts.

So like in tennis, usually it's win lose it always adds up to zero zero sum. But if you're playing doubles, the person on your side of the net, they're in the same boat as you, so you're playing a non zero sum game with them.

So, in a way, the question is on what grounds am I upbeat at all about history? And the answer is, first of all, on balance I would say people have played their games to more win win outcomes than lose lose outcomes. On balance, I think history is a net positive in the non zero sum game department.

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

Hopefully, we can get three points but that will be tough game because they had a good result in their last game but, with the crowd behind us, I'm sure we can push on and get a positive result.

The Spanish Government favoured the creation of virtuous circles of cooperation, enabling all the parties concerned to collaborate, making concessions and reaping positive benefits on a non zero sum basis.

But there's a more fundamental reason that it's not intrinsically upbeat, because a non zero sum game, all it tells you for sure is that the fortunes will be correlated for better or worse.

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Too many people think of economics as a zero sum game, and that China s success is coming at the expense of the rest of the world. Yes, China s rapid growth poses challenges to the West.

This narrative, in other words, would encompass aspirations for the future rather than the scars of the past inclusion rather than the paradigm of us and them a win win paradigm rather than a zero sum game.

Like, have you ever thought when you buy a car, how many people on how many different continents contributed to the manufacture of that car? Those are people in effect you're playing a non zero sum game with.

Five years ago, policies aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions were seen as a cost burden on the economy. Negotiations were therefore a zero sum game, with countries seeking to minimize their obligations while asking others to do more.

Beggar thy neighbor policies could lower total trade volume a zero sum game from which no one would benefit. After all, Japanese exports rely on emerging and developing markets, with East Asia alone accounting for nearly half of Japan s foreign sales.

I paid double the sum.

Wright argues that technology has increased the number of positive sum games that humans tend to be embroiled in, by allowing the trade of goods, services and ideas over longer distances and among larger groups of people.

So hopefully everything has been positive, positive, positive, more positive.

If this assessment is accurate, the obvious next question is how much further Abe and Xi can move toward détente, thereby appeasing their business sectors, without losing the backing of nationalists, who tend to view the bilateral relationship as a zero sum game.

Is it naive to believe that the world amounts to more than zero sum thinking? Can Europe promote fair play in international affairs, or must it accept a new game of great power rivalry as inevitable and throw itself into the fray?

And the sum looks like this.

Asian Games Are Not Zero Sum

Now we've got a home game and an away game.

The World Cup allows all of the supporters of one country to come together at one moment for one game between two groups that must, like them, become more than the sum of their parts. It actually feels incomplete to watch the World Cup alone.

The inability of unconventional monetary policies to prevent outright deflation partly reflects the fact that such policies seek to weaken the currency, thereby improving net exports and increasing inflation. This, however, is a zero sum game that merely exports deflation and recession to other economies.

The sum came to over 20,000 yen.

A thousand dollars is a large sum.

That's the definition of infinite game. A finite game is play to win, and an infinite game is played to keep playing.

There is an infinite game, and we're playing in that infinite game.

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