The Road to Serfdom

Text and Documents: The Definitive Edition

F. A. Hayek, Bruce Caldwell

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Topic: Business
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317541974
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

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.

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