An analysis of the military and educational expenditures of 2 sets of 10 countries from G. T. Kurian was conducted to assess the validity of modeling societies as zero-sum games. Analysis indicated a tendency for the economic systems of many societies to allocate national resources in favor of one interest at the expense of another.
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