Cultural codes: An economic analysis

摘要

In her article 'Cultural Codes and Military Ethics - Israel's Leadership and POWs from the 1973 Yom Kippur War,' Dalia Gavriely-Nuri (2012) presents a simple but important hypothesis: 'When an official code of military ethics has yet to be institutionalized, cultural codes tend to substitute as guides to conduct.' To investigate this hypothesis Gavriely-Nuri examines what she calls the 'Cultural Code of Captivity.' That code offered to fill a void created by the absence of formal rules stipulating how Israeli political and military leaders were to behave toward Israeli prisoners of war (POWs) captured during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.