The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents: The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek)

Hayek, F. A.

ISBN 10: 0415035287 / ISBN 13: 9780415035286

Published by Routledge, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents: The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415035287
• ISBN 13: 9780415035286
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Bruce Caldwell