The Mystery of the Kibbutz : : Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World / / Ran Abramitzky.
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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020 |
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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 ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) |
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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