The Road to Serfdom

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THE ROAD TO SERFDOM The Road to Serfdom is probably Professor Hayek's best known work, First published in 1944, it has been translated into twelve languages and has made its^author world-famous. Economic planning is still a topic of academic as well as publie and governmental interest and study. The Road to Serfdom, therefore, eontinues to form a basis for critieal discussion of planned eeonomies. This edition ineludes a specially-written prefaee by the author. 'This book should be read by everybody. It is no use saying that there are a great many people who are not interested in politics; the political issue diseussed by Dr Hayek eoneerns every single membér of the eommunity: it is the problem of freedom in a planned soeiety. Aeeording to Dr Hayek, the moment we pass from arrangements to ensure "security against severe physieal privation", and the provision of those services which cannot be provided by competition, to any attempt to establish a "central direction of all economic... Tovább

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THE ROAD TO SERFDOM The Road to Serfdom is probably Professor Hayek's best known work, First published in 1944, it has been translated into twelve languages and has made its^author world-famous. Economic planning is still a topic of academic as well as publie and governmental interest and study. The Road to Serfdom, therefore, eontinues to form a basis for critieal discussion of planned eeonomies. This edition ineludes a specially-written prefaee by the author. 'This book should be read by everybody. It is no use saying that there are a great many people who are not interested in politics; the political issue diseussed by Dr Hayek eoneerns every single membér of the eommunity: it is the problem of freedom in a planned soeiety. Aeeording to Dr Hayek, the moment we pass from arrangements to ensure "security against severe physieal privation", and the provision of those services which cannot be provided by competition, to any attempt to establish a "central direction of all economic activity aeeording to a single plan, laying down how the resources of soeiety should be consciously directed to serve particular ends in a definite way" our liberty is gone.'-Listener Tn my opinion it is a grand book. We all have the greatest reason to be grateful to you for saying so well what needs so much to be said Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in a deeply moved agreement.'-J. M. Keynes 'In the negatíve part of Professor Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often - at any rate, it is not being said nearly often enough - that collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisition never dreamt of.'-George Orwell 'A courageous book: sincerity that scorns camouflage and never minces matters is its outstanding feature from beginning to end. Finally, it is alsó a polite book that hardly ever attributes to opponents anything beyond intellectual error The reader will be glad to have the views of one of the most eminent economists of our time.' -Joseph A. Schumpeter CA scholarly and sincere book.'-A. C. Pigou 'There is no economist writing in English more eminently qualified to do the job.'-Aaron Director Vissza