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100	1		_aMalherek, Joseph, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aFree-Market Socialists : _bEuropean Émigrés Who Made Capitalist Culture in America, 1918–1968 / _cJoseph Malherek.
264		1	_aNew York : _bCentral European University Press, _c2022.
264		3	_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2022
264		4	_c©2022.
300			_a1 online resource (405 pages).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aNew republics and new ideas -- Exile and underground -- New Deal in a new country -- Making postwar America.
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_a"The Hungarian artist-designer László Moholy-Nagy, the Austrian sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld, and his fellow Viennese Victor Gruen-an architect and urban planner-made careers in different fields. Yet they shared common socialist politics, Jewish backgrounds, and experience as refugees from the Nazis. This book tells the story of their intellectual migration from Central Europe to the United States, beginning with the collapse of the Habsburg Empire, and moving through the heady years of newly independent social-democratic republics before the descent into fascism. It follows their experience of exile and adaptation in a new country, and culminates with a surprising outcome of socialist thinking: the opening of the first fully enclosed, air-conditioned suburban shopping center in the United States. Although the American culture they encountered ostensibly celebrated entrepreneurial individualism and capitalistic "free enterprise," Moholy-Nagy, Lazarsfeld, and Gruen arrived at a time of the progressive economic reforms of the New Deal and an extraordinary open-mindedness about social democracy. This period of unprecedented economic experimentation nurtured a business climate that, for the most part, did not stifle the emigres' socialist idealism but rather channeled it as the source of creative solutions to the practical problems of industrial design, urban planning, and consumer behavior. Based on a vast array of original sources, Malherek interweaves the biographies of these three remarkable personalities and those of their wives, colleagues, and friends with whom they collaborated on innovative projects that would shape the material environment and consumer culture of their adopted home. The result is a narrative of immigration and adaptation that challenges the crude binary of capitalism and socialism with a story of creative economic hybridization"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General. _2bisacsh
650		0	_aCapitalism _zUnited States.
650		0	_aSocialism _zUnited States.
650		0	_aUnited States _xSocial conditions.
650		0	_aUnited States _xIntellectual life _y20th century.
600	1	0	_aGruen, Victor, _d1903-1980.
600	1	0	_aLazarsfeld, Paul F., _d1901-1976.
600	1	0	_aMoholy-Nagy, László, _d1895-1946.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/98212/
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