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| Title: | | Shall we kill or enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar model  |
| Authors: | | Jasso, Guillermina |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 3460 |
| Abstract: | | When a society overthrows a ruler - call the ruler Caesar - what determines whether Caesar is killed or enslaved? This paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power. The model pertains to societies which value ordinal goods like bravery, yielding predictions for three of the five types of societies - justice-nonmaterialistic, status, and power-nonmaterialistic. Results cover members' gains, effects of own rank and group size, and relative gains from killing or enslaving Caesar. Further results suggest that Caesar will be killed only in a justice-nonmaterialistic society, and from the noblest of motives - to achieve equal gains for members. |
| Subjects: | | Civil strife coup d'état regicide tyrannicide assassination imprisonment exile sociobehavioral theory justice comparison status power identity happiness personal qualitative characteristics hierarchy equality |
| JEL: | | D6 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20080421171 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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