Shall we kill or enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar model

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 3460

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: Civil strife ; coup d'état ; regicide ; tyrannicide ; assassination ; imprisonment ; exile ; sociobehavioral theory ; justice ; comparison ; status ; power ; identity ; happiness ; personal qualitative characteristics ; hierarchy ; equality ; Politische Unruhen ; Public Choice ; Soziale Werte ; Gerechtigkeit ; Postmaterialismus ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Jasso, Guillermina
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2008

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/34810
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-20080421171
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET