About this title: The Road to Serfdom remains one of the all-time classics of twentieth-century intellectual thought. For over half a century, it has inspired politicians and thinkers around the world, and has had a crucial impact on our political and cultural history. With trademark brilliance, Hayek argues convincingly that, while socialist ideals may be tempting, they cannot be accomplished except by means that few would approve of. Addressing economics, fascism, history, socialism and the Holocaust, Hayek unwraps the trappings of socialist ideology. He reveals to the world that little can result from such ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1956
ISBN-13:9780226320786ISBN:0226320782
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Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13:9780226320786ISBN:0226320782
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780226320618ISBN:0226320618
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780744800449ISBN:0744800447
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of Chicago press, [Chicago]
Date Published: 1965
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Notes and underlining in text. xxiii, 248 p. 21 cm. Bibliographical foot-notes. "Bibliographical note": p. 241-242. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: 01/04/1991
ISBN-13:9780415065603ISBN:0415065607
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis(Routledge)
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780415253895ISBN:0415253896
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 7.795 by 5.079 inches. Addressing economics, fascism, history, socialism and the holocaust, hayek unwraps the trappings of socialist ideology. the road to serfdom remains one of the all-time classics of twentieth-century intellectual thought. the road to serfdom remains one of the all-time classics of twentieth-century intellectual thought. for over half a century, it has inspired politicians and thinkers around the world, and has had a crucial impact on our political and ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780710069856ISBN:0710069855
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: 01/04/1991
ISBN-13:9780415065603ISBN:0415065607
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780226320618ISBN:0226320618
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1956
ISBN-13:9780226320786ISBN:0226320782
Description: Paperback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition suitable as a reading copy. pp., 350grams, ISBN: 0226320782. read more
"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."
"this book is a very good argument against collectivism. i would be interested to see if there exists a book as convincing that argued for it. this guy's sentence structure and vocab is pretty impressive. so the book is not an easy read, although you auto-feel-smarter. you want to be able to quote it, but you can't really remember what you read. my favorite part was when he is discussing the common problem of jobs becoming outdated and how he argues against the government spending to sustain those jobs and companies. very timely. he doesn't really argue against, he more argues to be careful, and shows the dangers of too much intervention, although he readily admits that too much is opinion. he gives an interesting spin on the concept of fairness. people may think that working 40 years in the same job and then getting replaced by technology or industry failure is unfair, but how unfair is it to the person who was able to recognize that that industry was becoming outdated and sought another one? if the government intervenes to keep the former employed wouldn't it have to also subsidize the latter?"
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