Back to the land Arthurdale, FDR's New Deal, and the costs of economics planning
How New Deal economic policies played out in the small town of Arthurdale, West Virginia. Today, the U.S. government is again moving to embrace New Deal-like economic policies. While much has been written about the New Deal from a macro perspective, little has been written about how New Deal program...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, N.J.
Wiley
2011
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | How New Deal economic policies played out in the small town of Arthurdale, West Virginia. Today, the U.S. government is again moving to embrace New Deal-like economic policies. While much has been written about the New Deal from a macro perspective, little has been written about how New Deal programs played out on the ground. In Back to the Land, author CJ Maloney tells the true story of Arthurdale, West Virginia, a town created as a "pet project" of the Roosevelts. Designed to be (in the words of Eleanor Roosevelt) "a human experiment station", she was to create a "N |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 292 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations, portraits |
| ISBN: | 1118886925 1118023579 9781283026796 9781118023570 1283026791 1118023536 9781118023532 |