Seeking the positive-sum economy where everyone wins

Unfortunately, zero total thinking is the simplest and easiest way to analyze something: you separate it as two possibilities, good and bad. Therefore, it is easy to see migration as an immigrant case against jobs. Gender debates are seen as women against women. Climate change is against the environment.

Leigh, when you see politics in this way, ambition narrows and says that cooperation has fallen. However, even though he does not say so, the two -party politics is the essence of a game with zero -sum. A rival government and opposition system that only one side can win.

Another point I do depends on your thinking whether some actions are zero total or positive-toplamiz, whether it is short-term or longer. Can actions related to climate change cost jobs? Yes, of course. Will it cost the registration of the registration of old growth forests? Yes.

But this is what economists call the “first round effect .. And as someone once said, the most important question asked by economists “But what happens after?” . In these cases, the displaced workers find jobs elsewhere (with the help of the government, I hope), but the environmental damage stops.

Because economists know how to distinguish between initial effects and ultimate effects, it is easier to see the possibility of positive-complete results.

Leigh says that zero total thought is widespread, but it is not inevitable. It is shaped by culture, history and politics. And it carries real results. People who think in this way are less confident, more anxious and convinced that society is unfair.

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“The negotiators, who assume that each earnings are a loss for the other party, are missing cooperation opportunities. Politicians who frame problems with zero -total terms find it difficult to build coalitions. And when populism takes advantage of zero -total narratives, democracy itself faces the risk of being a permanent division theater,” he says.

He thinks people are important. “If you believe that the government is caught by the elite, every policy must be suspicious. Reform is possible if you believe that institutions can work for the public,” he says.

People’s growth and mobility experiences are very important. When families see that children are better than their parents, life feels like a expanding pier. Progress looks natural. However, when growth stalls and mobility decreases, famine begins to feel as common sense.

“For this reason, younger generations in many rich countries are more prone to zero total beliefs than their parents and grandfather. Wages barely move and grow up with the fact that the houses become less appropriate. Parents can wait for each generation to do better.” Says Leigh.

Abundance is about competence. This is related to more houses, more energy, building systems that provide more research – systems that offer the replacement of the delay and the ability to present scarcity.

However, abundance is also related to mentality. Believing that it requires belief-belief is possible, believing that growth can be shared, and believing that there are results of win-win.

Therefore, abundance policy has a double task: give concrete results through institutions that work and develop cultural confidence in which these results are possible and can be shared.

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“People have a higher probability that people can believe in positive results when they see their own lives in their own lives, Leigh says Leigh. “When children do better than their parents, they believe in social mobility. When immigrants are met and successful, communities see that newcomers expand the pies. When governments act fairly and visibly for the public interest, citizens are less inclined to believe that politics is controlled by the elite.”

Abundance politics requires honesty about the interruptions of change, and with its willingness to design the transitions in a fair way.

It is about improving the capacity of institutions and creating the trust of citizens. Institutions that cannot provide genus cynicism. Citizens who cannot imagine the positive total results will not support the reform.

Understand? Leigh says you have achieved reforms by reducing the resistance caused by zero total thought and increasing the cooperation caused by positive total thinking.