Ebook: The Mystery of the Kibbutz Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World

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.