Cooperation and Conflict: The Economics of Group Status Production and Race Discrimination

Abstract

n Shakespeare's history of King Henry V, when the time comes for the young King to ready his troops to battle a much larger French force at Agincourt, he delivers a stirring speech that many regard as a masterpiece of inspirational rhetoric.Rejecting his advisor's lament for more men, he responds: "No, my fair cousin:!If we are marked to die, we are enow/ To do our country loss: and if to live,/ The fewer men, the greater share of honour."'The King proclaims his personal desire for honor, offers safe passage back to England for those who do not wish to fight, and then describes how those who stay will be celebrated