All Posts Tagged With: "zero-sum game"
Fighting Back
John Landrum, a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and a former attorney, is in management at a New Orleans manufacturing company. He is the author of Out of Court: How to Protect Your Business From Litigation (Headwaters Press, 1992). I have always envied “how-to” writers and secretly hoped to become one. This is my [...]
1May1999 | John Landrum | 0 comments | ContinuedJust Deserts
The AFL-CIO has a Web site, www.paywatch.org, dedicated to condemning what it considers to be “runaway CEO pay” in private corporations. It claims that high executive pay damages all other “stakeholders” in corporations, especially workers and stockholders. In other words, the AFL-CIO asserts that excessively paid executives and other stakeholders are locked in a zero-sum [...]
1Mar1999 | Charles W. Baird | 1 comment | ContinuedUnconventional Wisdoms: The Best of Warren Brookes edited by Thomas J. Bray
Pacific Research Institute • 1997 • 302 pages • $16.95 Philip Murray is associate professor of economics at Webber College in Babson Park, Florida. Warren Brookes was a nationally syndicated columnist who developed a reputation as a great opponent of statist nonsense and a great proponent of sound thinking in science, economics, and politics. In [...]
1Mar1998 | Philip R. Murray | 0 comments | ContinuedFortunately, It’s Just a Game
Ms. Allen is a social studies and economics teacher at the Pueblo School of the Arts and Sciences, a Colorado charter school. I haven’t played Monopoly for years and years. But a few nights ago I was given another chance. After I’d banned the television for the evening, my twelve-year-old son persuaded me to play [...]
1Apr1995 | Candace Allen | 0 comments | Continued-
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