The Road to Serfdom

http://www.freerepublic.com ^ | 1944 | F. A. Hayek

[kalee]

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[Toddsterpatriot]

Please elaborate...I'm not following you.

What she's saying is that less government control of trade will lead to serfdom at some time in the future. To prevent this we need more government control now. Serfdom now!

[beckett]

The Road to Serfdom, a slim volume, masterfully outlined Hayek's major arguments against socialism. The Constitution of Liberty, written some fifteen years later, provides probably the most complete presentation of Hayek's thought on economics and politics, and is an excellent choice as the other book that must be read if only two of Hayek's works are to be chosen.

[Jacquerie]

Thank you for the book recommendation. I read Hayek only a few pages per day, just to absorb and fully appreciate his insight. IMO, the best use of 99% of academic published material is birdcage liner.

It is the work of the 1% that can change the course of history.

[FreedomPoster]

One of my favorites. I in particular like his comparison of Nazis and Communists. See the 3rd quote on my FReeper profile page, the 2-paragraph one.

[Jacquerie]

Great quote.

The last quote from Chapter II in my post was an eye opener and dovetails with your Hayek observations. I had no idea that 1930's era universities were instilling hatred for western civilization. I assumed it was a phenomena started in the '60s

[FreedomPoster]

Fortunately that crap is mostly in the soft disciplines - English, anything with "Science" in the title, diversity degrees, and the sort of nonsense that will get your resume throw to the wastebasket for any position beyond barrista or retail clerk.

Engineering, business, finance, accounting, hard sciences, math, etc., are filled with plenty who still believe in American and Western Exceptionalism.

[Little Bill]

The two outstanding books in my Library are, The True Believer, and The Road to Serfdom, I have several copies of each which I lend out.

[festus]

I really don't know but sometime during the history of America. The intro to the version I have by Milton Friedman has a footnote breifly touching on this. There may be more though in there and my memory is just fuzzy.

[Shimmer128]

Thanks, I'd like to explore this further.

[word_warrior_bob]

We're WELL on our way, look at the difference in the tax burden and hidden taxes in the last 50 years.

Unless you make SERIOUS money, the government pretty much will destroy your dreams.

[Jacquerie]

Thanks. I ordered two copies of The True Believer.

[Bishop_Malachi]

"Please elaborate...I'm not following you."

"What she's saying is that less government control of trade will lead to serfdom at some time in the future. To prevent this we need more government control now. Serfdom now!



LOL! That's what I thought she(he?) was getting at. Maybe I should stay outta this argument.

[Toddsterpatriot]

She doesn't have an argument. She claims to be a conservative but favors higher tariffs and more government control of the economy.

[Little Bill]

You won't be disappointed, I first read it in 1962, when I was in High School.

[Little Bill]

Pod:

It is obvious Hedgetrimmer never read the damned book.

Bill

[sauropod]

If he thinks free trade is the problem, he has a lot to learn.

[aberaussie]

bttt

[DuncanWaring]

Hayek primary thesis was that what happened in Nazi Germany could happen anywhere ...

Thomas Sowell said the same thing in one of his essays in Black Rednecks and White Liberals.

[Sam Cree]

You ought definitely to read it, there is nothing like it anywhere in political literature.

Hayek once said (paraphrasing here, and although I think referring to another book) that he was not going to write something full of high flown phrases about things like the dignity of man, since leftists could do that too. His intention was to present arguments that would utterly destroy the arguments for socialism. In this book especially, but in all his writings, he succeeds completely in that endeavor.