“We act like a zero-sum society, when in reality there is a lot of non zero-sum fat to be skimmed off to everyone's mutual advantage.”

—  Howard Raiffa

Part IV, Chapter 21, Environmental Conflict Resolution, p. 310.
The Art and Science of Negotiation (1982)

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