Free-market socialists European émigrés who made capitalist culture in America, 1918-1968 Malherek, Joseph creator author. JSTOR (Organization) text bibliography Electronic books. hu 2022 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (unpaged) : illustrations "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"-- New republics and new ideas -- Exile and underground -- New Deal in a new country -- Making postwar America. Joseph Malherek. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us--- Moholy-Nagy, László 1895-1946 Lazarsfeld, Paul F 1901-1976 Gruen, Victor 1903-1980 Gruen, Victor 1903-1980 Lazarsfeld, Paul F 1901-1976 Moholy-Nagy, László 1895-1946 United States Intellectual life 20th century United States Social conditions Socialism United States Capitalism United States BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration Capitalism Intellectual life Social conditions Socialism United States 1900-1999 fast E169.12 .M22 2022 306.0973/0904 BIO000000 SOC007000 Free-market socialists Malherek, Joseph. Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2022 (DLC) 2022022570 9633864488 9789633864487 9789633864470 2022022571 22573/ctv27zsf2s JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7829/j.ctv280b79g DLC 220516 20230103223705.6 in00004636472 eng