Supplemented with an appendix of related materials and forewords to earlier editions by the likes of Milton Friedman, and Hayek himself, this new edition of The Road to Serfdom will be the definitive version of Friedrich Hayek's enduring masterwork. Caldwell has also standardized and corrected Hayek's references and added helpful new explanatory notes. This new edition includes a foreword by series editor and leading Hayek scholar Bruce Caldwell explaining the book's origins and publishing history and assessing common misinterpretations of Hayek's thought. 8 Ratings 84 Want to read 5 Currently reading 13 Have read Overview View 33 Editions Details Reviews Lists Related Books Publish Date 1944 Publisher G.For Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with increasing economic control would lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. The Road to Serfdom remains one of the all-time classics of twentieth-century intellectual thought.

Since its publication in 1944, The Road to Serfdom has been popular among liberal (especially classical) and conservative thinkers, and remains referenced in modern discourse. Originally published in 1944, it was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. Addressing economics, fascism, history, socialism and the Holocaust, Hayek unwraps the trappings of socialist ideology. The Road to Serfdom (German: Der Weg zur Knechtschaft) is a book written between 19 by Austrian-British economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek. A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual history and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians and scholars for half a century.

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