The Mystery of the Kibbutz: Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World
By: Ran Abramitzky
3.86
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
How the kibbutz movement thrived despite its inherent economic contradictions and why it eventually…
Want to Read $ 15.37"Ideology serves to both increase the value of the inside option, thereby alleviating brain drain, and enhance cooperative norms within the group, thereby alleviating free-riding."-Ran Abramitzky, The Mystery of the Kibbutz: Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World
"The kibbutz experience suggests that income equality does not come for free. What you gain in a safety net, you lose in individual incentives; but if you raise incentives, inequality follows."-Ran Abramitzky, The Mystery of the Kibbutz: Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World
"Social rituals enhance social bonding between commune members and encourage togetherness, which increase members’ perceived value of the inside option and thus alleviate brain drain. Rituals also mitigate adverse selection by demanding a hard-to-fake, costly signal of commitment to the commune."-Ran Abramitzky, The Mystery of the Kibbutz: Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World
"The ideology of kibbutzim was Socialist Zionism, but socialism and Zionism didn’t always coexist harmoniously. Arab workers were fellows under socialist ideology but often enemies under the Zionist ideology. The attitudes towards new Jewish immigrants who arrived from Middle Eastern countries, discussed in the next chapter, also illustrates the tension between the socialist and Zionist missions of kibbutzim."-Ran Abramitzky, The Mystery of the Kibbutz: Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World
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30. The Mystery of the Kibbutz: Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World
By: Ran Abramitzky
3.86
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
How the kibbutz movement thrived despite its inherent economic contradictions and why it eventually… read more
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"Ideology serves to both increase the value of the inside option, thereby alleviating brain drain, and enhance cooperative norms within the group, thereby alleviating free-riding."-Ran Abramitzky, The Mystery of the Kibbutz: Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World
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