The Road to Serfdom

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political philosophy/cultural history/economics
"This book has become a true classic: essential reading for
everyone who is seriously interested in politics in the broadest
and least partisan sense, a book whose central message is time-
less, applicable to a wide variety of concrete situations. In some
ways it is even more relevant to the United States today
than it was when it created a sensation on its
original publication in 1944."
—From Milton Friedman's Introduction
"When he wrote The Road to Serfdom, [Hayek's] was a voice in
the wilderness. Now the fight [has] been taken up by people all
over the world, by institutions and movements, and the ideas that
seemed so strange to many in 1944 can be found from
scholarly journals to television programs."
—Thomas Sowell, Forbes, January 1994
F. A. Hayek's timeless meditation on the relation between individual lib-
erty and government authority, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and
infuriated politicians, scholars,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

political philosophy/cultural history/economics
"This book has become a true classic: essential reading for
everyone who is seriously interested in politics in the broadest
and least partisan sense, a book whose central message is time-
less, applicable to a wide variety of concrete situations. In some
ways it is even more relevant to the United States today
than it was when it created a sensation on its
original publication in 1944."
—From Milton Friedman's Introduction
"When he wrote The Road to Serfdom, [Hayek's] was a voice in
the wilderness. Now the fight [has] been taken up by people all
over the world, by institutions and movements, and the ideas that
seemed so strange to many in 1944 can be found from
scholarly journals to television programs."
—Thomas Sowell, Forbes, January 1994
F. A. Hayek's timeless meditation on the relation between individual lib-
erty and government authority, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and
infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century.
For Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with increas-
ing economic control would inevitably lead not to a Utopia but to the
horrors of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. This anniversary edition
commemorates the enduring influence of The Road to Serfdom on the
ever-changing political and social climates of the twentieth century, from
the rise of socialism after World War II to the Reagan and Thatcher
"revolutions" in the 1980s and the transitions in Eastern Europe from
communism to capitalism in the 1990s.
F. A. Hayek (1899-1992), recipient of the Medal of Freedom in 1991 and
co-winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1974, was a pio-
neer in monetary theory and the principal proponent of libertarianism
in the twentieth century. He taught at the University of London, the
University of Chicago, and the University of Freiburg (Germany).
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