The Mystery of the Kibbutz : : Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World / / Ran Abramitzky.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
• VerfasserIn: Abramitzky, Ran,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World ; 73
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)

How the kibbutz movement thrived despite its inherent economic contradictions and why it eventually declinedThe kibbutz is a social experiment in collective living that challenges traditional economic theory. By sharing all income and resources equally among its members, the kibbutz system created s...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• INTRODUCTION: The kibbutz puzzle
• PART I. THE RISE
• CHAPTER 1. How my grandparents helped create a kibbutz
• CHAPTER 2. A bird’s-eye view
• CHAPTER 3: Why an economist might create a kibbutz
• PART II. THE SURVIVAL
• CHAPTER 4. On the creation versus survival of societies
• CHAPTER 5. The free- rider problem
• CHAPTER 6. The adverse selection and brain drain problems
• CHAPTER 7. The problem of human capital investment
• PART III. THE FALL
• CHAPTER 8. The shift away from equal sharing
• CHAPTER 9. Why some kibbutzim remained egalitarian and others did not
• CHAPTER 10. The consequences of rising income inequality
• CHAPTER 11. On the (lack of) stability of communes: an economic perspective
• CHAPTER 12. Economic lessons in a nutshell
• CHAPTER 13. Epilogue
• Kibbutz timeline
• Acknowledgments
• References
• Index