{"product_id":"back-to-the-land-arthurdale-fdrs-new-deal-and-the-costs-of-economic-planning-9781118886922","title":"Back to the Land: Arthurdale, FDR's New Deal, and the Costs of Economic Planning","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): C. J. Maloney\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Wiley\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Wiley\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: United States - 20th Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"To read of America before the New Deal is not so much to read of another time, but of another country altogether. Arthurdale was the tipping point--every American born after its birth knows nothing of life in a Republic.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e--From the Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Maloney shines a bright light on the darkest fallacy of the 1930s. To know the New Deal, read this.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e--Amity Shlaes, author, The Forgotten Man, and Senior Fellow in Economic History, Council on Foreign Relations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"F. A. Hayek argued in the abstract that the success of socialism came from its utopian vision. C. J. Maloney articulately details one real-world example of how the centrally planned attempt to implement such a vision failed, but the decentralized efforts of common people succeeded in overcoming the obstacles laid in their path.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e--Alexander McCobin, President, Students For Liberty\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I always pay attention to C. J. Maloney. He understands economics, the financial system, and our history. And he can write. Read this book.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e--Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr., Chairman, Ludwig von Mises Institute\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In lively and engaging prose, C. J. Maloney skillfully recounts the ill-fated history of the most famous of the New Deal's 'planned communities.' Although Back to the Land reveals the waste, hubris, and tragic clueless-ness of Arthurdale's federal patrons, including none other than Eleanor Roosevelt, Maloney never forgets the human element. He paints a vivid portrait of the ordinary men and women who took part in this 'experiment.'This is a book that will both entertain and inform . . . a timeless and nuanced case study about the unintended consequences of top-down social engineering.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e--David Beito, Professor of History, University of Alabama; author of Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Maloney combines extensive research with solid economics to present an astonishing story of FDR's attempt to design a new town from the top down. This government effort to create 'a human experiment station'--in the non-ironic description of Eleanor Roosevelt--predictably yielded a massive waste of tax dollars and a tragic loss of human liberty.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e--Robert P. Murphy, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New DeaL\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45113317621911,"sku":"9781118886922","price":1938.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781118886922.webp?v=1767268370","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/back-to-the-land-arthurdale-fdrs-new-deal-and-the-costs-of-economic-planning-9781118886922","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}