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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, N.J. :
Wiley,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 292 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-284) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781118023532 1118023536 9781118023570 1118023579 1283026791 9781283026796 1118886925 9781118886922 |