In the next four years there are 30, YES 30, comic book super hero movies or sequels scheduled to hit theaters near you. Why are there so many films being made about comic book heroes and why do we keep going to see them again and again?

In game theory and economic theory, a zero-sum game is a mathematical representation of a situation in which each participant’s gain (or loss) of utility is exactly balanced by the losses (or gains) of the utility of the other participant(s).

In our initial podcast we consider when the best action in any given situation maybe thoughtful inaction. The inspiration for our conversation came from a quote from H. Richard Niehbur, the great 20th century Protestant theologian and ethicist: