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The Mystery of the Kibbutz Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World

By Ran , Project Muse.;Abramitzky

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9780691177533, 2577949529, 9781400888153, 1400888158
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
14 MB (14915186 bytes)
Series
Princeton economic history of the Western world.; Book collections on Project MUSE
Pages
(vi, 343 pages :) illustrations, map\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Kibbutzim;Kibbutzim--Economic aspects;Electronic b

Description

Introduction : The kibbutz puzzle -- Part I. The rise. How my grandparents helped create a kibbutz -- A bird's-eye view -- Why an economist might create a kibbutz -- Part II. The survival. On the creation versus survival of societies -- The free-rider problem -- The adverse selection and brain drain problems -- The problem of human capital investment -- Part III. The fall. The shift away from equal sharing -- Why some kibbutzim remained egalitarian and others did not -- The consequences of rising income inequality -- On the (lack of) stability of communes : an economic perspective -- Economic lessons in a nutshell -- Epilogue -- Kibbutz timeline.

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