[Alex Murphy]

If we go with what the Bible favors in economics we'll go with a leveling wealth redistribution every fifty years as described in Leviticus 25:8-17 where in the year of Jubilee, accumulated land reverted to the original owners.

More specifically, original ownership of one of the original plots of land within Israel's borders. There was no "wealth redistribution" per se. How many "original owners" do you think could have showed up to claim their chunk of land in the second Jubilee? At best, a claimant would have to prove lineage back to the original owner of said plot, and after several generations of dividing it amongst the heirs, the amount of land someone could legitimately (re)claim would end up as a token amount.

[Alex Murphy]

Ping to post #17

[Bryanw92]

>>At best, a claimant would have to prove lineage back to the original owner of said plot, and after several generations of dividing it amongst the heirs, the amount of land someone could legitimately (re)claim would end up as a token amount.

I don’t think it would have been divided amongst the heirs. They tended to give all to the firstborn son.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Land was the major component of wealth in a pre-industrial society. The message is clear, God's ideal was that there be no perpetual rich or poor class, not that there be a forced income leveling within the fifty years.

[Olympiad Fisherman]

See post 35!