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Co-Director, Women and Public Policy Program
Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government

Additional Authors:

  • Siri Chilazi

Excerpt

February 2, 2025, Opinion: "A fairness myth we frequently encounter is what one of the leading decision-making and negotiation scholars, Max Bazerman, calls the "mythical-fixed-pie mindset": the often-incorrect assumption (also called zero-sum thinking) that one person’s gain has to equal another person’s loss, or that there is only a finite amount of resources to go around. In some cases, this is, of course, true. The number of people who can win in the Olympics is finite; the number of spots available in most legislatures is fixed; and when haggling with a merchant, a lower price for you equals less money for them.  "