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Reprint ed. Paperback octavo, very good plus condition, minimal edgewear, cover design differs from stock photo. 283 pp. 'The Road to Serfdom' by Austrian economist Professor F. A. Hayek has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars and general readers for over 70 years. Originally published in 1944 - when Eleanor Roosevelt supported Stalin, and Albert Einstein supported socialism - his heretical book offered strong support for individualism and private enterprise, as well as a passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. 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 bestselling classic has become one of the most important and influential books that cover political philosophy, economics and intellectual and cultural history.…