@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp3460, author={Jasso, Guillermina}, title={Shall We Kill or Enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar Model}, year={2008}, month={Apr}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={3460}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3460}, 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.}, keywords={power;status;comparison;justice;sociobehavioral theory;exile;imprisonment;assassination;tyrannicide;regicide;coup d’état;civil strife;identity;happiness;personal qualitative characteristics;hierarchy;equality}, }