The road to serfdom : text and documents

The road to serfdom Text and documents

Friedrich A. von Hayek, 1899-1992

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Subjects
Economic policy.
Totalitarianism.
Published
[Chicago] : University of Chicago Press 2007.
Language
English
Main Author
Friedrich A. von Hayek, 1899-1992 (-)
Other Authors
Bruce Caldwell, 1952- (-)
Edition
Definitive edition
Physical Description
xi, 283 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-241) and index.
ISBN
9780226320557
9780226320540
  • Editorial Foreword
  • Introduction
  • The Road to Serfdom
  • Preface to the Original Editions
  • Foreword to the 1956 American Paperback Edition
  • Preface to the 1976 Edition
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Abandoned Road
  • 2. The Great Utopia
  • 3. Individualism and Collectivism
  • 4. The "Inevitability" of Planning
  • 5. Planning and Democracy
  • 6. Planning and the Rule of Law
  • 7. Economic Control and Totalitarianism
  • 8. Who, Whom?
  • 9. Security and Freedom
  • 10. Why the Worst Get on Top
  • 11. The End of Truth
  • 12. The Socialist Roots of Naziism
  • 13. The Totalitarians in Our Midst
  • 14. Material Conditions and Ideal Ends
  • 15. The Prospects of International Order
  • 16. Conclusion
  • Bibliographical Note
  • Appendix. Related Documents
  • Nazi-Socialism (1933)
  • Reader's Report
  • Reader's Report
  • Foreword to the 1944 American Edition
  • Letter from John Scoon to C. Hartley Grattan (1945)
  • Introduction to the 1994 Edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
Review by Choice Review

Caldwell (economics, Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro; Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek, CH, Jun'04, 41-6018) makes this new edition of Hayek's classic Road to Serfdom (1944) interesting by describing the social, political, and economic environment of the work at the time of its publication. Economic planning was the popular catchword of the time, and Hayek set himself the task of showing the ineradicable difficulties of comprehensive planning, its failure, and its impact on individual freedoms. Also of interest is Caldwell's summary of the review Hayek received on first publication. Keynes gave a positive review, but then one may note that Keynes stated that if the macro-problem of mass unemployment was corrected, the competitive free market price economy worked quite well. Summing Up: Recommended. Public and academic library collections, lower-division undergraduate and up. E. Schwartz emeritus, Lehigh University

Copyright American Library Association, used with permission.

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