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“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.”

Community Ritual Bonding Cohesion

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

Source: 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.”

Incentives Safety Net Income Inequality Kibbutz

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

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

“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.”

Community Ideology Cooperation Brain Drain

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

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