It was an Austrian economist who would provide the most powerful critique not just of central planning but of the Taylorist fallacies underlying it. Friedrich Hayek, author of The Road to Serfdom, is a patron saint of libertarians for having assailed not only big government, in the form of socialism, but also central planning in general.8 For what he found dangerous about the centralizing tendencies of socialism applies equally well to the overbearing powers of the corporate monopolist.
