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 increasing economic control would lead not to a utopia but to
the horrors of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
First published by the University of Chicago Press on September 18,
1944, "The Road to Serfdom" garnered immediate, widespread
attention. The first printing of 2,000 copies was exhausted
instantly, and within six months more than 30,000 books were sold.
In April 1945, "Reader's Digest" published a condensed version of
the book, and soon thereafter the Book-of-the-Month Club
distributed this edition to more than 600,000 readers. A perennial
best seller, the book has sold 400,000 copies in the United States
alone and has been translated into more than twenty languages,
along the way becoming one of the most important and influential
books of the century.
With this new edition, "The Road to Serfdom" takes its place in the
series "The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek." The volume 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. Caldwell has also
standardizedand corrected Hayek's references and added helpful new
explanatory notes. Supplemented with an appendix of related
materials ranging from prepublication reports on the initial
manuscript to forewords to earlier editions by John Chamberlain,
Milton Friedman, and Hayek himself, this new edition of "The Road
to Serfdom" will be the definitive version of Friedrich Hayek's
enduring masterwork.
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Excellent and revelatory
Tue, 13 Sep 2022 | Review
by: Kyle S.
An elaborate, enriching and measured proscription of socialism.
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