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But the "supply-siders" are quite right when they say that economies are not a zero-sum game.
And so people like me and people like Kuttner will never be able to make peace, because we are engaged in a zero-sum conflict--not over policy, but over intellectual boundaries.
They denied that peace talks were a "zero-sum game," and they dismissed the Israeli right's equation of terrorism with the Palestinian Authority.
The answer, of course, is that we work so hard because we are determined to get ahead--an effort that (for Americans as a society) is doomed to failure, because competition for status is a zero-sum game.
On the contrary, hovering like white noise throughout his 1993 essay, and through much of this book, is the that international relations are typically zero-sum, so that "natural conflicts of interest" dominate world affairs.