[aruanan]

The Road is a terrific book. Over sixty years after initial publication it is a prescient road map to our eventual life under socialist tyranny. My ten year old copy is dog-eared, highlighted and falling apart. I think a new Amazon soft copy is less than $8.

As I read The Road to Serfdom, I am continually amazed at how well Hayek understood the nature of the statist beast.

[GOPJ]

There is no justification for the widespread belief that, so long as power is conferred by democratic procedure, it cannot be arbitrary; it is not the source of power which prevents it from being arbitrary; to be free from dictatorial qualities, the power must also be limited.

I've read books that had less to say than the paragraph above...