Ran Abramitzky on the Mystery of the Kibbutz

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🗓️ 22 October 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Economist and author Ran Abramitzky of Stanford University talks about his book, The Mystery of the Kibbutz, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Abramitzky traces the evolution of the kibbutz movement in Israel and how the kibbutz structure changed to cope with the modernization and development of the Israeli economy. The conversation includes a discussion of how the history of the kibbutz might help us to understand the appeal and challenges of the socialism and freedom.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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0:33.6	Today is October 4, 2018, and my guest is author and economist Ron Abramitsky of Stanford
0:39.2	University.
0:40.2	He studies economic history, immigration, and inequality.
0:43.8	He is the author of the mystery of the Kabuts, egalitarian principles in a capitalist world.
0:49.4	Ron, welcome to Econ Talk.
0:51.3	Thanks, Hope for having me, Russ.
0:53.3	What is a Kabuts?
0:55.0	And why did you get interested in him enough to write a book on him?
0:58.4	That's a good question.
1:00.7	So a Kabuts theme, which are plural of Kabuts, are communities in Israel that were based
1:07.2	for many years on full equality in the distributions of incomes.
1:13.4	And as such, they are puzzling for economic theory.
1:16.2	They are based on full equality of incomes and collective ownership of property, and
1:21.4	yet they survived for over a century.
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