false 917310 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 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</div>]]> 299215 26 217623 1944 The Road to Serfdom (Fiftieth Anniversary Edition) total:661|5:315|4:211|3:98|2:30|1:7| 661 2780 1227 138 670307 4.20 966 168 5526616 311643 299215 0226320618 9780226320618 105 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070m/299215.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070s/299215.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/299215.The_Road_to_Serfdom 4.21 509 1944 5 5 false Sun Sep 02 08:00:21 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 09 12:48:22 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4653315 156677 299215 0226320618 9780226320618 105 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070m/299215.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070s/299215.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/299215.The_Road_to_Serfdom 4.21 661 1944 3 5 false Sun May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Thu Aug 16 13:06:39 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 05:32:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 38135155 820910 299215 0226320618 9780226320618 105 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070m/299215.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070s/299215.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/299215.The_Road_to_Serfdom 4.21 661 1944 5 7 false Wed Nov 19 09:04:08 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 14:42:43 -0800 2008
Having grown up and lived in Austria during World War I and later moving t...more...]]> 10528314 38497 299215 0226320618 9780226320618 105 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070m/299215.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070s/299215.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/299215.The_Road_to_Serfdom 4.21 661 1944 4 2 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 16 18:08:42 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 16 18:15:25 -0800 2007 more...]]> 51715742 1241339 299215 0226320618 9780226320618 105 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070m/299215.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070s/299215.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/299215.The_Road_to_Serfdom 4.21 661 1944 4 1 false Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 13:17:10 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 13:46:59 -0700 2009
This book is a warning to England, writte...more...]]> 43293663 1268332 299215 0226320618 9780226320618 105 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070m/299215.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070s/299215.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/299215.The_Road_to_Serfdom 4.21 661 1944 4 1 false Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Fri Jan 16 17:03:31 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 17:28:14 -0800 2009 more...]]> 41737991 936214 917308 0226320596 9780226320595 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179437812m/917308.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179437812s/917308.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/917308.The_Road_to_Serfdom 4.28 29 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</div>]]> 1944 4 2 false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Jan 03 12:42:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 12:56:20 -0800 2009 Hayek is one of the greatest economists of the 20th century. He won a nobel prize in economics. Along with Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams, he is one of my 3 favorite economists. He is one of the founders of the "Austrian school" of economics, which inspired Reagan...more...]]> 4177779 192175 299215 0226320618 9780226320618 105 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070m/299215.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070s/299215.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/299215.The_Road_to_Serfdom 4.21 661 1944 5 1 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 06 18:19:33 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 24 19:07:08 -0700 2007
Communism = Fascism.

Theme: "What has always made the state a hell on earth has been pre...more...]]> 44180684 1950263 224704 0226320553 9780226320557 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172857113m/224704.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172857113s/224704.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/224704.The_Road_to_Serfdom_Text_and_Documents_The_Definitive_Edition 4.33 52 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.</div></div>]]> 1944 5 0 false Sat Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 10:52:39 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 17:17:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 79910098 1239764 224704 0226320553 9780226320557 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172857113m/224704.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172857113s/224704.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/224704.The_Road_to_Serfdom_Text_and_Documents_The_Definitive_Edition 4.21 661 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.</div></div>]]> 1944 5 0 false Fri Dec 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 04 15:34:30 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 04 16:14:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 52057452 1242221 299215 0226320618 9780226320618 105 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070m/299215.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070s/299215.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/299215.The_Road_to_Serfdom 4.21 661 1944 5 0 false Thu Apr 09 07:54:18 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 08:26:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 60806878 2450800 299215 0226320618 9780226320618 105 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070m/299215.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070s/299215.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/299215.The_Road_to_Serfdom 4.21 661 1944 2 0 false Tue Jun 23 11:50:22 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 16:10:58 -0700 2009 BUT
we must also bear clearly in mind some bare facts on this issue:
-market is fictional. It's not a metaphys...more...]]> 52878797 2227055 299215 0226320618 9780226320618 105 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070m/299215.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070s/299215.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/299215.The_Road_to_Serfdom 4.21 661 1944 4 0 false Thu Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 05:28:44 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 07:44:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 58124729 1386477 299215 0226320618 9780226320618 105 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070m/299215.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070s/299215.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/299215.The_Road_to_Serfdom 4.21 661 1944 4 0 false Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 19:03:09 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 21:28:45 -0700 2009
I was surprised to find that I really enjoyed this book. I didn't expect this book to be about histo...more...]]> 46822119 1771951 299215 0226320618 9780226320618 105 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070m/299215.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070s/299215.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/299215.The_Road_to_Serfdom 4.21 661 1944 5 1 false Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 19:51:07 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 20:00:59 -0800 2009
Highly recommended for thos...more...]]> 690134 56395 299215 0226320618 9780226320618 105 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070m/299215.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070s/299215.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/299215.The_Road_to_Serfdom 4.21 661 1944 1 1 false Sat May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Thu Apr 12 10:45:22 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 17:53:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 79408380 2890057 299215 0226320618 9780226320618 105 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070m/299215.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070s/299215.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/299215.The_Road_to_Serfdom 4.21 661 1944 0 0 false Tue Dec 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 09:24:31 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 22 07:47:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 61004353 1258773 299215 0226320618 9780226320618 105 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070m/299215.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070s/299215.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/299215.The_Road_to_Serfdom 4.21 661 1944 5 3 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 19:19:22 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 19:26:14 -0700 2009 fine book. What a timely book. Those who want to understand Obamonomics need to read this. Those who have read it already should probably read it again. The political world is divided into two main groups -- those who think controlling everything from the center is a good idea and those who d...more...]]> 43172525 426277 299215 0226320618 9780226320618 105 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070m/299215.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070s/299215.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/299215.The_Road_to_Serfdom 4.21 661 1944 5 2 false Wed Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Jan 15 15:30:51 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 06:45:40 -0800 2009 34763581 1196472 299215 0226320618 9780226320618 105 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070m/299215.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173507070s/299215.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/299215.The_Road_to_Serfdom 4.21 661 1944 0 1 false Tue Oct 07 15:59:35 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 07 16:00:20 -0700 2008 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=917310