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Mediating National Honour: Lessons from the Era of Dueling

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  • Barry O'Neill

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In negotiations purely over interests, someone who initiates a concession but fails to reach agreement has lost nothing, but with honour at stake, initiating a concession reveals one as willing to compromise over honour. A mediator can help by suggesting a compromise that both parties would not propose themselves, and can obscure the identity of the first accepter. Another method, discussed by Jarque, Ponsatí and Sákovics, involves "secret concessions", has the mediator revealing each side's position to the other only when they become compatible. Other ways to mediate honour are illustrated by challenges to duel in pre-Civil War America.

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  • Barry O'Neill, 2003. "Mediating National Honour: Lessons from the Era of Dueling," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 159(1), pages 229-247, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:mhr:jinste:urn:sici:0932-4569(200303)159:1_229:mnhlft_2.0.tx_2-f
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    • H56 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - National Security and War
    • J52 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Dispute Resolution: Strikes, Arbitration, and Mediation
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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