Mystery of the Kibbutz (eBook)

Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World

Ran Abramitzky (Autor)

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2018
360 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8815-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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 strong incentives to free ride or-as in the case of the most educated and skilled-to depart for the city. Yet for much of the twentieth century kibbutzim thrived, and kibbutz life was perceived as idyllic both by members and the outside world. In The Mystery of the Kibbutz, Ran Abramitzky blends economic perspectives with personal insights to examine how kibbutzim successfully maintained equal sharing for so long despite their inherent incentive problems.Weaving the story of his own family's experiences as kibbutz members with extensive economic and historical data, Abramitzky sheds light on the idealism and historic circumstances that helped kibbutzim overcome their economic contradictions. He illuminates how the design of kibbutzim met the challenges of thriving as enclaves in a capitalist world and evaluates kibbutzim's success at sustaining economic equality. By drawing on extensive historical data and the stories of his pioneering grandmother who founded a kibbutz, his uncle who remained in a kibbutz his entire adult life, and his mother who was raised in and left the kibbutz, Abramitzky brings to life the rise and fall of the kibbutz movement.The lessons that The Mystery of the Kibbutz draws from this unique social experiment extend far beyond the kibbutz gates, serving as a guide to societies that strive to foster economic and social equality.

Autor

Ran Abramitzky is associate professor of economics at Stanford University and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.2.2018
• Reihe/Serie: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
• Reihe/Serie: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: adverse selection • Agriculture • Agriculture (Chinese mythology) • Aliyah • anecdotal evidence • Apartment • Bagrut • Capitalism • communism • Competition • Consideration • debt • developed country • Econometrics • economic forces • Economic Growth • Economic Inequality • Economics • economist • economy • Employment • Epigraph (literature) • Exit rate • Financial Crisis • free rider problem • grandparent • health insurance • higher education • Household • Human Capital • Human capital flight • Hutterite • Ideology • Incentive • income • Income Equality • industrialisation • Information asymmetry • Institution • insurance • Israel • Israeli Declaration of Independence • Israeli Jews • Israelis • Jewish History • Jews • Job Security • just society • Kibbutz • Kibbutz Movement • Kolkhoz • Kvutza • laborer • Lock-in (decision-making) • meal • Middle East • Moral Hazard • Moshav • Mutual aid (emergency services) • Mutual aid (organization theory) • Nazi Germany • Negba • Nuclear family • opportunity cost • palmach • Persecution • Poverty • Prediction • Princeton University Press • Privatization • residence • Richard Posner • safety net • salary • saving • Self-Sufficiency • Sharing • Small Business • standard of living • state school • Supply (economics) • Tax • Tax Rate • Tel Aviv • The Other Hand • Third Aliyah • To this Day • Trade-off • Unemployment • utopian socialism • Voluntary Socialism • wage • Wealth • welfare • Welfare State • Work Ethic • Workforce • World War II • year • Zionism
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8815-8 / 1400888158
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8815-3 / 9781400888153