Road to Serfdom (Hayek - Definitive ed.)

Author: F. A. Hayek

ISBN: 9780226320557

Binding: paperback

Section: Economics/Business/Finance

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.