Road to Serfdom : Text and Documents

English

Series: The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek Ser.

Volume: 2

ISBN: 0226320553

EAN: 9780226320557

Category: Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy/Political Science / Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism/

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Release Date: 03/31/2007

Synopsis: An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics,The Road to Serfdomhas inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program The Road to Serfdomwas 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 Serfdomgarnered 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, Readers Digestpublished 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 Serfdomtakes its place in the seriesThen Collected Works of F. A. Hayek. The volume includes a foreword by series editor and leading Hayek scholar Brude Caldwell explaining the books origins and publishing history and assessing common misinterpretations of Hayeks thought. Caldwell has also standardized and corrected Hayeks 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 Hayeks enduring masterwork.

Road to Serfdom : Text and Documents

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.9 inches

Width: 6.0 inches

Length: 9.0 inches

Weight: 15.06 oz

Pages: 304