Lesson learned: A long ago federal agriculture project that did not work out

Published: March 8, 2024, 1:44 p.m.

b'It is an eternal question. How much should government try to do? Now we present a view you may not hear all that often. An old book about a failed New Deal era agriculture project has been re-issued by the conservative American Enterprise Institute. First published in 1951, the book, "Government Project," detailed the Agriculture Department\'s attempt at establishing\\xa0a cooperative farm from the ground up in Arizona. The author, Edward Banfield, was a Harvard urban studies professor and one-time federal information officer. He died in 1999. For more, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with Kevin Kosar, who wrote the forward to the reprint and is a Senior Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'