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Whites See Racism as a Zero-Sum Game That They Are Now Losing

By: Michael I. Norton and Samuel R. Sommers
Although some have heralded recent political and cultural developments as signaling the arrival of a post-racial era in America, several legal and social controversies regarding "reverse racism" highlight Whites' increasing concern about anti-White bias. We show that... View Details
Keywords: Racism; Zero-sum Game; Bias; Affirmative Action; Prejudice and Bias; Race; Social Issues; United States
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  • 13 Jul 2011
  • News

Racism As A Zero-Sum Game

  • 1982
  • Article

A Note on the Maximum Value of Two Person, Zero-Sum Games

By: A. E. Roth
Keywords: Value
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  • August 2016
  • Article

Cooperation Can Emerge in Prisoner’s Dilemma from a Multi-species Predator Prey Replicator Dynamic

By: Elisabeth Paulson and Christopher Griffin
In this paper we study a generalized variation of the replicator dynamic that involves several species and sub-species that may interact. We show how this dynamic comes about from a specific finite-population model, but also show that one must take into consideration... View Details
Keywords: Prisoner's Dilemma; Replicator Dynamic; Zero-sum Game; Cooperation; Behavior; Balance and Stability
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Cooperative Strategic Games

By: Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman
We examine a solution concept, called the “value," for n-person strategic games. In applications, the value provides an a-priori assessment of the monetary worth of a player's position in a strategic game, comprising not only the player's contribution to the total... View Details
Keywords: Game Theory
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  • July 16, 2016
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A Game Theoretic Model for Resource Allocation Among Countermeasures with Multiple Attributes

By: Elisabeth C. Paulson, Igor Linkov and Jeffrey Keisler
We study a strategic, two-player, sequential game between an attacker and defender. The defender must allocate resources amongst possible countermeasures and across possible targets. The attacker then chooses a type of threat and a target to attack. This paper proposes... View Details
Keywords: Resource Allocation; Game Theory; Strategy
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  • 30 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 30

institutions. We examine, over a 60-year period, the nationalities of the most senior positions in the United Nations Secretariat, ostensibly the world's most representative international institution. The results indicate which nations are successful in this View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2008
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Entrepreneurship and Urban Success: Toward a Policy Consensus

By: Zoltan J. Acs, Edward L. Glaeser, Robert E. Litan, Lee Fleming, Stephan J. Goetz, William R. Kerr, Steven Klepper, Stuart S. Rosenthal, Olav Sorenson and William C. Strange
Like all politics, all entrepreneurship is local. Individuals launch firms and, if successful, expand their enterprises to other locations. But new firms must start somewhere, even if their businesses are conducted largely or exclusively on the Internet. Likewise,... View Details
Keywords: Business Headquarters; Business Startups; Development Economics; Economy; Entrepreneurship; Policy; Taxation; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Business Processes; Expansion; Internet
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Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness

By: Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth and Zhiwei Steven Wu
The most prevalent notions of fairness in machine learning are statistical definitions: they fix a small collection of pre-defined groups, and then ask for parity of some statistic of the classifier (like classification rate or false positive rate) across these groups.... View Details
Keywords: Machine Learning; Algorithms; Fairness; Mathematical Methods
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  • 22 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers

cars, for instance. Source: “Second Change: Life Without Student Debt” by Marco Di Maggio, Ankit Kalda, and Vincent W. Yao. All of these results show that policy interventions in the student loan market should not be considered a zero-sum... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Feb 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

government subcontractors—the argument goes—then Whites' right for equal protection may be violated." In a related article, Whites See Racism as a Zero-Sum Game That They Are Now Losing, Norton and Sommers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

Because pricing is such a difficult and complex arena, it has confounded sales and marketing executives and scholars for centuries. In no other marketing element is the two-sided conflict and cooperation nature of the buyer-seller relationship made so clear. Part of... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing
  • 04 Feb 2022
  • Book

Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries

Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 31 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

value appropriation to value creation. As information and knowledge came to provide competitive advantage, the game shifted. Unlike capital, knowledge actually increases when shared, thus eliminating the View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

Swimming with the Stream

longer only the Top 40 artists dominating the live show landscape. All of us can find our tribes and build a successful following,” says Gandhi. “The industry is less of a zero-sum game thanks to streaming.”... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 12 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

with the wrong kind of competition, on the wrong things. Instead, we have a zero-sum competition to restrict services, assemble bargaining power, shift the cost to others, or grab more of the revenue versus other actors in the system.... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health
  • 15 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 15

scholars to devote more resources to obtaining a fundamental understanding of contemporary and future practice and how analytic tools and contemporary advances in accounting and related disciplines can be deployed to improve the professional practice of accounting.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation

establish a demilitarized buffer zone under the Egyptian flag rather than continue a vain zero-sum search over where to draw the boundary line in the sand. Although shared interests matter, Sebenius says, skilled two-dimensional... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

devised, which paved the way for the use of quantitative analysis in formal strategic planning. In 1944, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern published their classic work, The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. This work essentially... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 21 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

and by extension with their entire staff. What they have in mind for management, they say, is a "new moral contract" that explicitly chooses value creation over the zero-sum game of value appropriation.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace