A competitive or economic situation is termed zero-sum when the total amount of money or comparable measure that is gained by some participants is exactly equal to the total amount of the measure that is lost by the remaining participants. The term is specifically associated with a game in which the sum of the payoffs lost or gained by the players is fixed. Game theory.
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Gass, S.I., Harris, C.M. (2001). Zero-sum . In: Gass, S.I., Harris, C.M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-0611-X_1136
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