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Created: 2025-07-10 21:20:10 UTC

Increasingly in America debates are “shaped by a mindset that sees the world as a fixed pie” whereby “one group’s gain is another’s loss”.
 
Such zero-sum thinking, writes Harvard professor @S_Stantcheva, is crucial to understanding Americans today

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