Now, the old economics is correct, of course, that competition plays a crucial role in how markets work, but what it fails to see is that it is largely a competition between highly cooperative groups -- competition between firms, competition between networks of firms, competition between nations -- and anyone who has ever run a successful business knows that building a cooperative team by including the talents of everyone is almost always a better strategy than just a bunch of selfish jerks.
Međutim, stara ekonomija je u pravu, naravno, natjecanje igra ključnu ulogu u funkcioniranju tržišta, ali ono što propušta uvidjeti je da je to uglavnom natjecanje između visoko kooperativnih grupa -- natjecanje između poduzeća, natjecanje između mreža poduzeća, natjecanje između naroda -- a svatko tko je ikada vodio uspješno poslovanje zna da je izgradnja kooperativnog tima uključivanjem talenata svih članova gotovo uvijek bolja strategija nego tek gomila sebičnih kretena.