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Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by F.A. Hayek. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. F.A. Hayek was an Anglo-Austrian economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism and economic liberty. Author of the seminal book The Road to Serfdom, Hayek was the first major thought leader who denounced the socialist takeover of Western academia, particularly economics, as was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President George H.W. Bush. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by F.A. Hayek. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Friedrich August von Hayek, better known as F.A. Hayek, was an Austrian economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism, which is more in line with American constitutionalism than the current communist position of "woke" American liberals. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by F.A. Hayek. Click image (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle.F.A. Hayek was an Anglo-Austrian economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism and economic liberty. Author of the seminal book The Road to Serfdom, Hayek was the first major thought leader who denounced the socialist takeover of Western academia, particularly economics, as was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President George H.W. Bush.All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to...

Economists who pontificate about economics but know next to nothing about why civilizations rise and fall are not very bright. F.A. Hayek was different. Unlike today’s media-approved economists he explains in The Road To Serfdom, why socialism is more than a break with the recent past but also “with the whole evolution of Western civilization.” I doubt today’s esteemed finance reporters can name three differences between the Old Testament and the New. Again, Hayek was different, stressing the need to embrace a “longer historical perspective” as opposed to the Left’s New Soviet Man. Adamant as well: “We are rapidly abandoning...

Government is taking us a long way down the Road to Serfdom. That doesn't just mean that more of us must work for the government. It means that we are changing from independent, self-responsible people into a submissive flock. The welfare state kills the creative spirit. F.A. Hayek, an Austrian economist living in Britain, wrote "The Road to Serfdom" in 1944 as a warning that central economic planning would extinguish freedom. The book was a hit. Reader's Digest produced a condensed version that sold 5 million copies. At the beginning of "The Road to Serfdom," Hayek acknowledges that mere material...

On Saturday, September 24 at 7:00 pm F.A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom Milton Friedman Description: Milton Friedman sat down in 1994 to discuss F.A. Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom." Mr. Friedman, who wrote the introduction to the 50th Anniversary edition of the book, describes its effect on the ever-changing political and social climates of the twentieth century. He discusses the book's influence on the rise of socialism after World War II, the Reagan and Thatcher administrations in the 1980s and the shift in Eastern Europe from communism to capitalism in the 1990s. Author Bio: Milton Friedman is the author...

The Institute of Economic Affairs 2 Lord North Street, Westminster, London SW1P 3LB Tel: 020 7799 8900 Fax: 020 7799 2137 Email: iea@iea.org.uk Internet: iea.org.uk Readers' Digest Condensed Version of the Road to Serfdom(in PDF format) The authors 9 Foreword by Edwin J. Feulner Jr 11 Introduction: Hayek, Fisher and The Road to Serfdom by John Blundell 14 Preface to the Reader’s Digest condensed version of The Road to Serfdom 26 Summary 27 The Road to Serfdom (condensed version) 31 Planning and power 32 Background to danger 34 The liberal way of planning 37 The great utopia 39 Why the...