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The Road to Serfdom
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A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual history and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians and scholars for half a century. Originally published in 1944, it was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For 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.
This new edition 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 standardized and corrected Hayek's references and added helpful new explanatory notes. Supplemented with an appendix of related materials and forewords to earlier editions by the likes of 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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Index
Abuse of Reason project, 9, 10–11
Acland, Richard, 204, 204n49, 217n6
Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg (Lord Acton): career of, 42n10; on democracy as end not means, 110; on equality and freedom, 42, 134; as example of English political wisdom, 194; on federalism, 223, 223n1; on origins of ideas, 57; on power and corruption, 18n60, 157; on socialism as slavery, 67
agreement, lack of in legislatures, 103–4, 105–7, 109–10
Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein, 182n4
Americans with Disabilities Act (United States), 262
Anglo-Saxons, values of, 219
Annals (Tacitus), 68n6
Anti-Corn Law League, 67–68n5
anti-Semitism, 160–61, 245, 250
Arrow, Kenneth, 30n105
arts, 177, 177n11
Ashton, E. B., 120–21n9
Atlee, Clement, 21n75
August, Karl (Fürst von Hardenberg), 190, 190n31
Austria, 54, 142–43, 189–90n27
Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research, 103n2
Austrian School of economics, 74n13
autarchy, 199, 199n24
Balilla, 143, 143n9
Bartley, Bill, 5n12
Bebel, Ferdinand August, 182n5
Becker, Carl L., 174, 174n5
Belgium, 145n10
Belloc, Hilaire, 67n4, 124
Benda, Julien, 201–2, 201n32, 202n33, 202–3n38
Benton, William, 251
Berlin (Germany), book-burning in, 246n4
Berlin, Isaiah, 2
Betrayal of the Intellectuals, The. See Trahison des clercs (Benda)
Beveridge, William; Hayek’s memo to, 1, 5–6, 5–6n14, 53; postwar planning and, 13–14, 13n41; social and political thought of, 14n45
Beveridge Report, 13–14, 14n43
Bevin, Ernest, 13
Bismarck, Otto von; diplomatic craftiness of, 194–95n6; in English literature, 194; social democracy and, 182n5; socialism and, 4; World War I–era Germany and, 187
Blakiston Company, 15n49
Blut und Boden (blood and soil), 173, 173n3
Boer War, 163, 194n3
book-burning, 246n4
Book Industry, The (Miller), 41n7
Book-of-the-Month Club, 19, 19n65
bourgeoisie, subjection of, 69n8
Bowen, Croswell, 19n65
Brady, Robert A., 201n31
Brandt, Joseph, 1, 16n54, 255–56, 257
Bright, John, 67, 67–68n5
Britain. See Great Britain
British Ministry of Information, 10
British Union of Fascists, 108n6
Brüning, Heinrich, 108, 108n7
Bulmer-Thomas, Ivor. See Thomas, Ivor
Burckhardt, Jacob, 164, 165n9...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Editorial Foreword
- Introduction
- Dedication
- Preface to the Original Editions
- Foreword to the 1956 American Paperback Edition
- Preface to the 1976 Edition
- Introduction
- One The Abandoned Road
- Two The Great Utopia
- Three Individualism and Collectivism
- Four The “Inevitability”of Planning
- Five Planning and Democracy
- Six Planning and the Rule of Law
- Seven Economic Control and Totalitarianism
- Eight Who, Whom?
- Nine Security and Freedom
- Ten Why the Worst Get on Top
- Eleven The End of Truth
- Twelve The Socialist Roots of Naziism
- Thirteen The Totalitarians in Our Midst
- Fourteen Material Conditions and Ideal Ends
- Fifteen The Prospects of International Order
- Sixteen Conclusion
- Bibliographical Note
- Appendix: Related Documents
- Acknowledgments
- Index