About this title: An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, "The Road to Serfdom" has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944 - when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program - "The Road to Serfdom" was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For F. A. Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with ...
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Binding: Original Wraps
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780226320557ISBN:0226320553
Description: Very Good + 6 x 9" Wraps. 8vo. xi, 283pp. VG+: what prevents us from describing its condition as "near fine" is the crease to the back cover, 1" from the fore-edge, from the top to the bottom---very neat, but a crease nonetheless. Otherwise, the binding is strong and tight; the covers (other than the above mentioned crease) is bright and attractive with no rubbing or wear; pages are clean, flat, and unmarked. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780226320557ISBN:0226320553
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780226320557ISBN:0226320553
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780226320557ISBN:0226320553
Description: New. An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, "The Road to Serfdom" has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944--wh... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Date Published: 2007-03-30
ISBN-13:9780226320557ISBN:0226320553
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"What a fine book. What a timely book. Those who want to understand Obamonomics need to read this. Those who have read it already should probably read it again. The political world is divided into two main groups -- those who think controlling everything from the center is a good idea and those who do not. Each side of that divide has its variations, but those are the basic options. Those on the fascist side (control) have the hard totalitarians and the soft totalitarians, but that is basically a difference between those who want to hang you by the neck and those who want to smother you with a feather pillow. At any rate, those who love freedom need all the intellectual ammo they can get these days, and this book has plenty."
"Friedrich August von Hayek wanted to create a country that is worth dying for. He wrote The Road to Serfdom and in doing so had greatly influenced several government leaders with one of them being Ronald Reagan. Hayek's Classical Liberal and laissez-faire ideology is put brilliantly in this book. He writes perfectly how socialism and a collectivist governments will only lead to tyranny.
I believe this world would be a better place if more politicians read his work and actually took it to heart. From reading this now, I know his writing had inadvertently influenced my own personal ideology by other great literature by individualist that directly looked up to Friedrich von Hayek's philosophy."
"Hayak's Road to Serfdom is basically about the connection between Socialism and the Nazi regime, pitfalls in our possibly following the same route, and potential ideas on how to avoid it.
I was surprised to find that I really enjoyed this book. I didn't expect this book to be about history or politics, seeing as how it was for an economics class. I have been learning a lot about World War II lately, and this book gave me a very interesting view on the morality (or lack of) of the Germans during the War.
Some of the ideas presented in this book were new and surprising to me. I was especially interested in some of his economic theories. For instance, he talked about how the end of the war and its corresponding economic surge would bring about unemployment on a large scale. He discussed the different things that the government might try to do to "fix" the "problem" of unemployment and concluded that the best thing to do would be to do nothing. By allowing the people to weather it out until they were willing to take a job, any job, they would naturally swing the economy back up. But if the government put any controls on the situation, especially if they created a minimum wage law, they would put shackles on the people's ability to right the situation. I definitely think that if this is true we could use this information today and create something positive out of our recession rather than the disaster that is not waiting around the corner."
"It may sound obnoxious, but this is truly one of that rare species -- a must-read for any educated person. There are some excellent reviews already posted here, so all I'll say is that this is to the 20th century, and probably the 21st, what Mill's On Liberty was to the 19th. Maybe better; very clearly argued, and easy to follow in its logic. In fact, it would be one helluva treat to hear Hayek and Mill discuss their ideas on liberty and authority, and the sometimes-unwittingly tyrannical power of government. Merely reading this slender volume is a treat in itself, though -- if you're considering it, don't pass it up."
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