The Road to Serfdom - Friedrich A. Hayek Audiobook
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A 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 England in the spring of 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 inevitably 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 attention from the public, politicians, and scholars alike. The first printing of 2,000 copies was exhausted instantly, and within six months more than 30,000 were sold. In April of 1945, Reader’s Digest published a condensed version of the book, and soon thereafter the Book-of-the-Month Club distributed this condensation to more than 600,000 readers. A perennial best-seller, the book has sold over a quarter of a million copies in the United States, not including the British edition or the nearly twenty translations into such languages as German, French, Dutch, Swedish, and Japanese, and not to mention the many underground editions produced in Eastern Europe before the fall of the iron curtain.
After thirty-two printings in the United States, The Road to Serfdom has established itself alongside the works of Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and George Orwell for its timeless meditation on the relation between individual liberty and government authority. This fiftieth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Milton Friedman, commemorates the enduring influence of The Road to Serfdom on the ever-changing political and social climates of the twentieth century, from the rise of socialism after World War II to the Reagan and Thatcher “revolutions” in the 1980s and the transitions in Eastern Europe from communism to capitalism in the 1990s.
F. A. Hayek (1899-1992), recipient of the Medal of Freedom in 1991 and co-winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1974, was a pioneer in monetary theory and the principal proponent of libertarianism in the twentieth century.
On the first American edition of The Road to Serfdom:
“One of the most important books of our generation. . . . It restates for our time the issue between liberty and authority with the power and rigor of reasoning with which John Stuart Mill stated the issue for his own generation in his great essay On Liberty. . . . It is an arresting call to all well-intentioned planners and socialists, to all those who are sincere democrats and liberals at heart to stop, look and listen.”—Henry Hazlitt, New York Times Book Review, September 1944
“In the negative part of Professor Hayek’s thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often—at any rate, it is not being said nearly often enough—that collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamt of.”—George Orwell, Collected Essays
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This post has 8 comments with rating of 4.8/5
December 16th, 2018
Thank you very much.
December 17th, 2018
When Hayek & Von Mises proposed the so-called “Austrian School” of economics, the economic community considered it heterodox (outside the bounds of normal economic theory). They and supporters like Rothbard, Friedman, & the walking contradiction Ayn Rand, believed that it was sufficient that their theories seemed good just because they seemed logical to them. They did not believe in the necessity of proving their theories in practice. Like the metaphilosophers/metascientists of the era of Pythagoris, Aristotle, Euclid, et. al., they did not believe they needed to submit their thought experiments to the rigors of scientific experimentation to determine whether there was an empirical truth in them or that they were falsifiable. To date, the only modern theory of Keynesian economics, practiced with considerable success from the inauguration of FDR to the inauguration of Reagan, with its switch to the failed Supply-Side, trickle-down theory based on the Austrian school, has actually proven out. Keynesian economics brought us out of the Great Depression and into the era of a suburban middle-class & stable working class. Economic security assured that any family with a single full-time earner could achieve security sufficient to clothe, feed, & educate their children, provide for their economic needs in terms of housing & medical care, and provide security against the future. That all ended when Reagan put us back onto Austrian School modeled economics, and we have been backsliding ever since. It is instructive to note that atheist, Christian hater, anti-Vietnam Ayn Rand abandoned her extreme worship of individualism she called “Objectivism” and signed up for Medicare & Social Security when she reached the eligible age. Even Rand didn’t believe in her theories.
Hayek was NOT the premier proponent of libertarianism in the 20th century, but of a perversion of the original left-wing libertarianism (anarcho-syndicalism - Google the IWW or Wobblies for an example) for a twisted right-wing form which the Cato Institute named anarcho-capitalism. Since Eisenhower took office in 1953, America has experienced 10 recessions. Except for a brief 6-month recession at the end of Jimmy Carter’s presidency, caused by the oil crisis & Paul Volker’s radical raising of the interest rate, all have been under Republican presidents. 3 were under Eisenhower, 1 under Nixon, 1 under Ford, 1 under Reagan, 1 under GHW Bush, and 2 under George W. Bush, including the Great Recession, under Dubya. Only Clinton & Obama had no recessions. The betting on Wall Street is that Trump’s economic policies are bringing on yet another recession.
December 20th, 2018
@BlueSun, here’s something you may wish to consider, US President’s policies generally do not change the state of the economic condition under their administration, but more often than not effect their predecessor’s terms.
You stated that Clinton and Obama didn’t have recessions under their terms. That’s not quite true, under Clinton, by the end of 2000, the US economy was already beginning a down turn with the death of the dot.com business, and the realization that Y2K wasn’t the crisis that was predicted.
And Obama’s entire two terms were a recession, where by the end of his presidency even with his favorable job number claims they barely reached where they were prior to the 2007 collapse.
Speaking of which, under which administration were the Frannie Mae and Freddie Mac compliance rules lowered, as well as several other banking regs? Oh, that would have been under Bill Clinton terms. Those “easy lending policies” allowed banks to finance higher risk customers and properties, and were a significant factor in the eventual collapse in 2007.
And, you might also want to consider other policy effects made under Clinton, for example, the release of Usama Bin Laden from custody when he was held for his part of the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen. Gee, if Usama would have been in prison for killing 17 sailors and injurying 39 others, we might not have had a 9/11. Why was he released, because the Bin Laden family were tied closely with the royal Saudi families, and Billie Boy didn’t want to piss them off.
Yeah, it’s simple to claim this or that President was responsible for a recession because it occurred during their term, but next time, go the extra mile
and look at the reasons leading up to the “crisis” that usually caused that recession.
December 20th, 2018
@BlueSun, sorry meant successor’s term, not predecessor’s term.
June 4th, 2020
BlueSun03
Trying to make chicken soup out of chicken sh*t.
Hayek’s point was simply “that fascism, National Socialism and socialism had common roots in central economic planning and empowering the state over the individual”.
A cautious tale that nations can vote themselves into Tyranny.
December 15th, 2021
It would be interesting to read a similar work based in current times where housing is becoming too expensive for middle income earners and they are forced to become lifelong renters where they are paying 70%of the income to landlords.
And landlords can use negitive gearing to write further increase their profits.
In Australia, most members of the right wing party which is currently in governent, own ten or more houses.
February 16th, 2022
Keynesian economics during the pandemic will be the cause of the return of world high inflation.
Housing is expensive due to demand and supply, that’s the reason is more expensive in Sydney than in Adelaide.
If there’s negative gearing there are no profits. Negative gearing is generated by deductible loses, as soon as there is a profit, it would be heavily taxed.
In Australia, people are heavily taxed by government who clearly waste taxpayers money. Capital gains tax should be eliminated to encourage investment.
August 23rd, 2022
What a great book. Thank you for sharing it. Appreciate it.
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