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Author Malherek, Joseph, author.

Title Free-market socialists : European émigrés who made capitalist culture in America, 1918-1968 / Joseph Malherek.

Publication Info. Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2022.

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Description 1 online resource (unpaged) : illustrations
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents New republics and new ideas -- Exile and underground -- New Deal in a new country -- Making postwar America.
Summary "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 émigrés' 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Note Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 07, 2022).
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Subject Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946.
Lazarsfeld, Paul F., 1901-1976.
Gruen, Victor, 1903-1980.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
United States -- Social conditions.
Socialism -- United States.
Capitalism -- United States.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.
Other Form: Print version: Malherek, Joseph. Free-market socialists Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2022 9789633864470 (DLC) 2022022570
ISBN 9633864488 electronic book
9789633864487 (electronic book)
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