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A Note on Cooperative Strategies in Gladiators’ Games

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  • Jérôme Ballet

    (Fund for Research on Ethics and Economics (FREE) and French Institute for Research on Development (IRD), UMI RESILIENCES, France)

  • Damien Bazin

    (University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, UFR Higher Institute of Economics and Management (ISEM), National Centre for Scientific Research GREDEG UMR7321 UNS-CNRS, 250, rue Albert Einstein, 06560 Valbonne, France)

  • Radu Vranceanu

    (ESSEC Business School and THEMA (UMR 8184), 95021 Cergy, France)

Abstract

Gladiatorial combat was in reality a lot less lethal than it is depicted in the cinema. This short paper highlights how cooperative strategies could have prevailed in the arenas, which is generally what happened during the Games. Cooperation in the arena corresponded to a situation of the professionalization of gladiators, who been trained in gladiatorial schools. This case provides an analogy of the conditions under which cooperation occurs in a context of competition between rival companies.

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  • Jérôme Ballet & Damien Bazin & Radu Vranceanu, 2013. "A Note on Cooperative Strategies in Gladiators’ Games," Games, MDPI, vol. 4(2), pages 1-8, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jgames:v:4:y:2013:i:2:p:200-207:d:25926
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    Keywords

    sustainable competition; cooperation rule; gladiatorial combat;
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    JEL classification:

    • C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods
    • C7 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory
    • C70 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - General
    • C71 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Cooperative Games
    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
    • C73 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Stochastic and Dynamic Games; Evolutionary Games

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