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

An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944?when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program?The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For F. A. 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.

First published by the University of Chicago Press on September 18, 1944, The Road to Serfdom garnered immediate, widespread attention. The first printing of 2,000 copies was exhausted instantly, and within six months more than 30,000 books were sold. In April 1945, Reader?s Digest published a condensed version of the book, and soon thereafter the Book-of-the-Month Club distributed this?edition to more than 600,000 readers. A perennial best seller, the book has sold 400,000 copies in the United States alone and has been translated into more than twenty languages, along the way becoming one of the most important and influential books of the century.

With this new edition, The Road to Serfdom takes its place in the series The?Collected Works of F. A. Hayek.? The volume 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 ranging from prepublication reports on the initial manuscript?to forewords to earlier editions by John Chamberlain, 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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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-01-2009; I disagree but a wonderful book; I was sitting in Spain having dinner with a friend and he asked me what I happened to be reading. I said "The Road to Serfdom." He said, "a wonderfully argued book!" I have to agree, although I disagree with Hayek's argument in this...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-25-2009; Deep read, but worth it. Hayek was a an Economic Nostradamus; This is probably one of the best books to read on why Keynesian economics doesn't work and why collectivism (socialism) in all its forms is a complete disaster for what our US Constitution gives us: liberty, freedom and private...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-22-2009; The Road to Serfdom; Was like new. Enjoying the book very much. Prompt delivery.Excellent reading for anyone wanting to see the progression of economics from a real world perspective looking at both sides of the issue as highlighted by forewords to...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-07-2009; .......as true as ever !; john st. mill, f. hayek, c. popper, m. friedman, b. goldwater ...... people should start reading those books more often again before they forget the meaning of "freedom" completely (especially in the western hemisphere); read full review | report as inappropriate

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-01-2009; I disagree but a wonderful book; I was sitting in Spain having dinner with a friend and he asked me what I happened to be reading. I said "The Road to Serfdom." He said, "a wonderfully argued book!" I have to agree, although I disagree with Hayek's argument in this...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-03-2009; Not all regulation is arbitrary administrative fiat.; Friedrich Hayek is probably better known today, nearly twenty years after his death, than he was when The Road to Serfdom was published in 1944. I recall seeing him interviewed on Meet the Press during the '60's, after the civil rights...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-24-2009; If There Was Ever a Tired Manuscript, This is It...; Economics in a Changed Universe: Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization, and the Death of Free EnterpriseI have gone through more than a couple of readings of Hayek's manuscript.The best way to remember him now, and probably his only dying...; read full review | report as inappropriate