A Note on Cooperative Strategies in Gladiators’ Games

Jerome Ballet, Damien Bazin and Radu Vranceanu

Games, 2013, vol. 4, issue 2, 1-8

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.

Keywords: sustainable competition; cooperation rule; gladiatorial combat (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C C7 C70 C71 C72 C73 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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