The road to serfdom / by Friedrich A. Hayek.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1956 ©1944Distributor: London : George Routledge & Sons, 1956Description: xxiii, 248 pages ; 23 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.91
LOC classification:
  • HD 82 .H38 1956
Online resources:
Contents:
I. The abandoned road -- II. The great utopia -- III. Individualism and collectivism -- IV. The "inevitability" of planning -- V. Planning and democracy -- VI. Planning and the rule of law -- VII. Economic control and totalitarianism -- VIII. Who, whom? -- IX. Security and freedom -- X. Why the worst get on top -- XI. The end of truth -- XII. The socialist roots of Naziism -- XIII. The totalitarians in our midst -- XIV. Material conditions and ideal ends -- XV. The prospects of international order -- XVI. Conclusion.
Summary: "A center of acute controversy when originally published in 1944, the reasoned views expressed in this book should not be obscured in the fog of polemic laid down by zealous partisans and opponents of the author's viewpoint. Mr. Hayek holds that the extended collectivism toward which free nations are gradually moving is incompatible with democracy, that social planning, as interpreted today, may eventually destroy all individual freedom, political no less than economic." -- From the back cover.
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BOOKS BOOKS Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks The Karl H. Niebyl Collection HD 82 .H38 1956 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan NPML20010026

Additional cover information: "A classic warning against the dangers to freedom inherent in social planning with a new foreword by the author."

Includes "bibliographical note" (pages 241-242) and index.

I. The abandoned road -- II. The great utopia -- III. Individualism and collectivism -- IV. The "inevitability" of planning -- V. Planning and democracy -- VI. Planning and the rule of law -- VII. Economic control and totalitarianism -- VIII. Who, whom? -- IX. Security and freedom -- X. Why the worst get on top -- XI. The end of truth -- XII. The socialist roots of Naziism -- XIII. The totalitarians in our midst -- XIV. Material conditions and ideal ends -- XV. The prospects of international order -- XVI. Conclusion.

"A center of acute controversy when originally published in 1944, the reasoned views expressed in this book should not be obscured in the fog of polemic laid down by zealous partisans and opponents of the author's viewpoint. Mr. Hayek holds that the extended collectivism toward which free nations are gradually moving is incompatible with democracy, that social planning, as interpreted today, may eventually destroy all individual freedom, political no less than economic." -- From the back cover.

Donation from Karl and Elizabeth Niebyl.

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