Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Word-of-the-Day :: Non-Zero-Sum

Because I Wikipedia'd 'Zero Sum' you get this better word.

Economics.
clipped from en.wikipedia.org

Complexity and non-zero-sum


It has been theorized by Robert Wright, among others, that society becomes increasingly non-zero-sum as it becomes more complex, specialized, and interdependent. As former US President Bill Clinton states:


The more complex societies get and the more complex the networks of interdependence within and beyond community and national borders get, the more people are forced in their own interests to find non-zero-sum solutions. That is, win-win solutions instead of win-lose solutions.... Because we find as our interdependence increases that, on the whole, we do better when other people do better as well - so we have to find ways that we can all win, we have to accommodate each other - Bill Clinton, Wired interview, December 2000.[1]
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