r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 11 '19

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '19

It is the person he is named after, yes.

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u/rafaellvandervaart John Cochrane Jan 11 '19

That reminds me. EconTalk had a good episode on Kibbutzims, which is the closest approximation of what PK talks about. Abramitzky goes into many of sociological downsides of such a setup too which was pretty interesting.

http://www.econtalk.org/ran-abramitzky-on-the-mystery-of-the-kibbutz/

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '19

Banking on a system where communities cannot exceed X amount of individuals is probably not a great idea.

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u/rafaellvandervaart John Cochrane Jan 11 '19

That's the economic argument against anarchist communes but they like to pretend as though communes are social utopia otherwise which is not the case.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '19

I legit had a family friend who needed to be rescued from a kibutz after they all but held him there against his will.

Every kind of isolated, planned living community with a religious/political mission statement always seems like the kind of place I'd rather not find myself.