Winner takes all

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Winner take(s) all may refer to:

Competition, economics and politics

• Winner-takes-all, see plurality voting system, a systemic approach to elections and voting
• Winner-take-all (computing), a computational principle in neural networks
• Winner-take-all market, a market in which small differences in performance translate into large differences in reward
• Winner-Take-All Politics, a book on American inequality by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
• The Winner-Take-All Society, a book on economics and tournaments by Robert H. Frank

Film

• Winner Take All (1932 film), a 1932 film starring James Cagney
• Winner Take All (1939 film), a 1939 film starring Tony Martin
• Winner Takes All (1982 film), a 1982 Hong Kong film directed by Wong Jing
• Winner Takes All (2000 film), a 2000 Hong Kong film directed by Clifton Ko
• Winner Takes All (2004 film), a 2004 Welsh short film directed by Helen M. Grace

Television

• Winner Takes All (novel), a BBC Books Doctor Who novel
• Winner Takes All (game show), on the ITV network from 1975 to 1988, and on Challenge TV from 1997
• Winner Take All (game show), a 1940s and early '50s American game show

Other

• "Winner Take All" (short story), a Sailor Steve Costigan story by Robert E. Howard
• Winner Take All, a 1998 album by The Turbo A.C.'s
• Winner Takes All (album), a 1979 album by The Isley Brothers

See also

• "The Winner Takes It All", a 1980 song by ABBA
• "Winner Takes It All", a 1987 Sammy Hagar song from the Over the Top
• Global optimization, a mathematical result showing that it makes sense to try to find better solutions by supporting risk taking (many failures before better solution is found) or in other words: Winner Should Not Take It All
• Kill the Winner hypothesis alternative to "Winner takes all" for population growth in microbes