The road to serfdom.
by Hayek, Friedrich A. frey50
Series: Phoenix Books Published by : The University of Chicago Press (Chicago, Illinois) , 1944 Physical details: 248 p. ISBN:0226320782.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 300 - 399 | Book Cart | 338.91 Hay (Browse shelf) | Available | 62282 |
Includes Index
The abandoned road -- The great utopia -- Individualism and collectivism -- The "inevitability" of planning -- Planning and democracy -- Planning and the rule of law -- Economic control and totalitarianism -- Who, whom? -- Security and freedom -- Why the worst get on top? -- The end of truth -- The socialist roots of Nazism -- The totalitarians in our midst -- Material conditions and ideal ends -- The prospects of international order.
Classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics. Originally published in 1944, it was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. The author was a cowinner of the Nobel Memoiral Prize in economics in 1974and was a pioneer in monetary theory and the principal proponent of libertariansim in the twentieth century.