John Bogle (1929–2019)
Gilbert Lecture, Princeton University, Feb 21, 2013
Part VII, The Margin Surplus, Wealth How?, p. 261.
Running Money (2004) First Edition
John Bogle (1929–2019)
Gilbert Lecture, Princeton University, Feb 21, 2013
David Graeber (1961) American anthropologist and anarchist
Source: Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Chapter Seven, "Honor and Degradation", p. 175
“1. You can't win. 2. You can't break even. 3. You can't even get out of the game.”
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet
Several publications attribute the quote to Ginsberg, probably the first one is The Coevolution Quarterly in 1975 [Google books https://books.google.it/books?id=MylJAQAAIAAJ&q=%22ginsberg%27s+theorem%22&dq=%22ginsberg%27s+theorem%22&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y], but there's is no evidence whatsoever that he ever pronounced it. A more detailed analysis can be found in this post https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/you_cant_win_you_cant_break_even/ <br class="br">Misattributed, Ginsberg's theorem
Steve Keen (1953) Australian economist
Source: Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001), Chapter 10, The Price Is Not Right, p. 216
Richard Arnold Epstein (1927) American physicist
Source: The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic (Revised Edition) 1977, Chapter Nine, Weighted Statistical Logic And Statistical Games, p. 295
“There are none so blind as those who see angels…None so deaf as those who hear gods.”
James K. Morrow book Only Begotten Daughter
Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 17 (p. 288)
“The world of shelf space is a zero-sum game: One product displaces another.”
Chris Anderson book The Long Tail
Source: The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (2006), Ch. 2, p. 40
“In a zero-sum game, the problem is entirely one of distribution, not at all one of production.”
Kenneth N. Waltz book Man, the State, and War
Source: Man, the State, and War (1959), Chapter VII, Some Implications Of The Third Image, p. 202
Marian Keyes (1963) Irish writer
Source: Last Chance Saloon