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  • Re: Hutterites, Community of Goods and the Free Market

    Very true! :) For a large scale example you might have to, though, and when the Huterites were the most successful, for example, they did their sharing on a pretty large scale, again quoting from the Journal of Political Economy article: "Huterian communities were established all over Moravia. Loserth names eighty-six towns near which they had
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by Jaakko Ojala on Sat, Jun 9 2012
  • Re: Hutterites, Community of Goods and the Free Market

    You said: ”If it is measured in pecunary intrest then the free market wins everytime.” I am not sure about even this. Consider for example the description of the period from 1565 to 1592 in the life of the Huterian community, as reported in Journal of Political Economy (1924): ”[T]he Huterian people found themselves better organized
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by Jaakko Ojala on Fri, Jun 8 2012
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