Mafiosi violence serves as advertisement in zero-sum honor competition

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• Mafiosi chose sides according to profit, not ideology or class loyalty (similarity 0.84)
• Mafiosi can organize as well or as badly as ordinary economic actors (similarity 0.82)
• Mafia violence exceeds what rational enforcement economics would require (similarity 0.81)
• The literature’s conflicting definitions of mafiosi as middlemen, guards, and thugs defy synthesis. (similarity 0.80)
• The mafia first appears in official records as an established force (similarity 0.79)
• A mafioso’s word functions as a guarantor that settles debts below face value (similarity 0.78)
• Wilful effort is required to produce the appearance of subjectless violence. (similarity 0.78)