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Cooperative Minorities and Intergroup Hostility

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  • Hillel Rapoport
  • Avi Weiss

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In this paper, we consider a situation in which the benefits obtained through membership in a minority have the unfortunate side effect of indirectly imposing costs on those same minority members. The central idea links to the issues of envy and hostility, with the latter treated as the behavioral implication of the former. We show the circumstances in which cooperation arises as an equilibrium strategy in intragroup trades for the minority while transactions within the majority and between members of different groups remain non-cooperative. We then discuss how such an outcome may generate a "hostility externality" so that partial cooperation -- ie, cooperation within a subset of the population, may in fine prove detrimental for the cooperative group. We conclude with insights on how the hostility externality can be internalized.

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  • Hillel Rapoport & Avi Weiss, 2001. "Cooperative Minorities and Intergroup Hostility," Annals of Economics and Statistics, GENES, issue 63-64, pages 171-182.
    • Handle: RePEc:adr:anecst:y:2001:i:63-64:p:171-182
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    1. Rapoport, Hillel & Weiss, Avi, 2002. "In-Group Cooperation in a Hostile Environment: An Economic Perspective on Some Aspects of Jewish Life in (Pre-Modern) Diaspora," IZA Discussion Papers 483, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

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