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  Amazon.com: The Road to Serfdom Fiftieth Anniversary Edition: Books: F. A. Hayek,Milton Friedman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Hayek (1899-1992), recipient of the Medal of Freedom in 1991 and co-winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1974, was a pioneer in monetary theory and the principal proponent of libertarianism in the twentieth century.
"The Road to Serfdom" is a classic for many reasons, but the chief among them is that nothing else so clearly and completely shows the degeneration of liberty inherent in the handing of arbitrary power to a bureaucracy.
"Road to Serfdom", by F.A. Hayek, is one of the greatest arguments for economic, political, and social freedom written during the 20th Century.
www.amazon.com /Road-Serfdom-Fiftieth-Anniversary/dp/0226320618   (2193 words)

  
  The Road to Serfdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Road to Serfdom is a book written by Friedrich Hayek (recipient of a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics) and originally published by Routledge Press in March 1944 in the UK and then by the University of Chicago in September 1944.
The Road to Serfdom is among the most influential and popular expositions of classical liberalism and libertarianism.
In The Road to Serfdom he wrote: "The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom   (955 words)

  
 The 2005 Hayek Lecture | The Road to Serfdom Revisited
The fuse lit by The Road to Serfdom was slow-burning.
The road to serfdom in the economic sense was inescapably the road to totalitarianism in the political sense.
The road to serfdom was paved with good intentions and was traversed at a creep rather than a gallop.
www.manhattan-institute.org /html/hayek2006.htm   (3476 words)

  
 Commanding Heights : Hayek's Road to Serfdom | on PBS
Excerpts from The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek, Routledge, 1944, pp.
Thus neither the provision of signposts on the roads nor, in most circumstances, that of the roads themselves can be paid for by every individual user.
Nor can certain harmful effects of deforestation, of some methods of farming, or of the smoke and noise of factories be confined to the owner of the property in question or to those who are willing to submit to the damage for an agreed compensation.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitextlo/ess_serfdom.html   (1712 words)

  
 The Road to Serfdom
The follwoing text is from "The Road to Serfdom" by F.A. Hayek, The University of Chicago Press, Fiftieth Aniversary Edition, 1994, pages 59-62, ISBN 0-226-32061-8.
The magnificent roads in [pre-war] Germany and Italy are an instance often quoted -- even though they do not represent a kind of planning not equally possible in a liberal society.
Anyone who has driven along the famous German motor roads and found the amount of traffic on them less than on many a secondary road in England can have little doubt that, so far as peace purposes are concerned, there is little justification for them.
www-ali.cs.umass.edu /~burrill/TheRoadToSerfdom.html   (778 words)

  
 The Road from Serfdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
"The Road to Serfdom," one of those masterpieces of liberty that rocks the lives and awakens the minds of many who read it, is as influential and relevant today as it ever was.
Ed Feulner, the president of the Heritage Foundation public policy think tank in Washington, knew Hayek personally and is something of an expert on the "The Road to Serfdom's" ideas and its enduring influence.
So “The Road to Serfdom” really is a set of guideposts for what the individual citizen’s relationship is to government.
www.frontpagemag.com /articles/Printable.asp?ID=19302   (1251 words)

  
 Hayek's Road to Serfdom Provides Lessons For Today
At Conservative University, The Road to Serfdom served to counter the plethora of college courses across the country devoted to praising the writings and radical theories of Communists such as Karl Marx and W.E.B. Du Bois.
In his introduction to The Road to Serfdom, Milton Friedman commented, "This book has become a true classic: essential reading for everyone who is seriously interested in politics in the broadest and least partisan sense, a book whose central message is timeless, applicable to a wide variety of concrete situations.
One student praised The Road to Serfdom, writing that it was a "very enjoyable and informational text, which strengthened my belief in the supreme importance of the individual's freedom to determine his own system of value within the constructs of the constitution and the law."
www.academia.org /campus_reports/2002/summer_2002_1.html   (1008 words)

  
 Reason: Hayek for the 21st Century: Biographer Bruce Caldwell on the Road to Serfdom author’s enduring lessons about ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Road to Serfdom became a bestseller even as it challenged the conventional wisdom that extensive, top-down economic planning would result in a more just and more efficient distribution of goods and services.
Hayek turned that on its head and said that extensive planning of the economy was in fact the road to serfdom, to less and less freedom.
Road is part of a larger effort called “The Abuse of Reason Project,” which attacked what he eventually called “rationalist constructivism,” the idea that we are able to reconstruct or correct society along rational lines.
www.reason.com /0501/fe.ng.hayek.shtml   (2491 words)

  
 The Road to Eco-Serfdom
In order to do so, she had to use the only route by which her home could be reached, a road to which she had clear and unambiguous right-of-way.
They appear as wagon roads in a map that was produced by the Army in 1881.
J.D. Lister, the original owner of the property bought by Luppi, “accessed his homestead by the roadway here at issue (which was the only road), and continued using it pursuant to RS 2477” until he obtained a land patent in 1919, Engdahl explained.
www.getusout.org /artman/publish/article_20.shtml   (2746 words)

  
 Hayek, the Road to Serfdom, and Public Heath by Christian Sandström
The economy is the sum of what priorities people make in their daily lives and if the government controls the economy it must also control how people choose to live their lives.
In The Road to Serfdom Hayek explains this and he concludes that centralized government is the main explanation to the political terror and the genocides that occurred in the 20
These thoughts are dangerous and they illustrate that the road to serfdom is downward sloping.
www.lewrockwell.com /orig6/sandstrom1.html   (854 words)

  
 The Road from Serfdom: Prospects for Freedom in Eastern Europe
The title of my lecture, 77ie Road From Seddom, is a direct reference to the title of Friedrich Hayek's book, published in 1944.
This is for two reasons: first, because Poland was the first in Eastern Europe to begin on its "road from serfdom" in August 1980; second, because events in Poland, because of the country's geopolitical location, are more important to the Eastern bloc states than events in any other country, except for the Soviet Union itself.
The watershed and point of no return are still ahead, but the country is well along its road from serfdom.
www.heritage.org /Research/Europe/HL192.cfm   (3513 words)

  
 The Road To Serfdom
While to the Nazi the communist and to the communist the Nazi, and to both the socialist, are potential recruits made of the right timber, they both know that there can be no compromise between them and those who really believe in individual freedom.
Neither the Gestapo nor the administration of a concentration camp, neither the Ministry of Propaganda nor the SA or SS (or their Russian counterparts) are suitable places for the exercise of humanitarian feelings.
Yet it is through such positions that the road to the highest positions in the totalitarian state leads.
jim.com /hayek.htm   (6049 words)

  
 The Road to Serfdom Today
The book was written to explain to a literate, but nontechnical readership how the road to political hell is paved with the best intentions.
As he made clear, classical liberalism's conflict with central planning was not over the shared goal of enhancing the well-being of the greatest possible number of people but over the way to achieve that goal.
Hayek's thesis in The Road to Serfdom is that one intervention inevitably leads to another.
www.cato.org /pub_display.php?pub_id=2566   (928 words)

  
 Club Troppo » Scandinavian social democracy — not the road to serfdom after all   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Scandinavian social democracy —; not the road to serfdom after all
For decades classical liberals have relied on Friedrich Hayek’s 1944 book The Road to Serfdom to warn that tax increases lead to tyranny.
Instead he argued that socialism was the the road to serfdom.
www.clubtroppo.com.au /2006/11/12/scandinavian-social-democracy-not-the-road-to-serfdom-after-all   (5564 words)

  
 The Road to Serfdom (Link to the Readers' Digest Condensed Version in PDF!)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The F A Hayek classic, The Road to Serfdom, was published in Britain in 1944 and in America (over some determined resistance) a little later.
Unforetunately, with my copy of "The Road to Serfdom" most of the entire book is underlined and highlighted because Hayek had so many profoundly important (and in many ways prophetic), things to say about where socialism would lead us.
The Road To Serfdom, the subject of this thread, is a classic which is germane to the discussion of the relationship between NAZIism and Communism.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1394906/posts   (3940 words)

  
 The Road to Serfdom: Fifty Years On. Article by Rafe Champion
Burton claims that the Fabian middle way of democratic socialism is simply a drift down the road to serfdom, liable at any moment to become a stampede towards chaos.
Her essay examines the constitution of liberty from an evolutionary perspective and provides a subtle and disturbing account of the evolutionary forces at work to keep society on track to serfdom.
This is reminiscent of Orwell's comment in postwar Britain that the intelligentsia of left and right were less inclined towards democracy than were the mass of the people.
www.the-rathouse.com /hayserf.html   (1854 words)

  
 The Business of America is Business: Road to Serfdom Archives
In the first installment of the series I noted that I had made no attempt to synchronize my analysis of the 18 paragraphs in the Times article to the 18 panels of the Road to Serfdom cartoon set.
The Road (that ought to be) Less Traveled II In "The Road (that ought to be) Less Traveled" I remarked on the opening paragraph from a NY Times article entitled Chavez Restyles Venezuela With 21st-Century Socialism:
The so-called economic freedom which the planners promise us means precisely that we are to be relieved of the necessity of solving our own economic problems and that the bitter choices which this often involves are to be made for us.
www.thebusinessofamericaisbusiness.biz /road_to_serfdom   (2722 words)

  
 To the People: On the Road to Serfdom Republicans are the Scarecrow
To the People: On the Road to Serfdom Republicans are the Scarecrow
On the Road to Serfdom Republicans are the Scarecrow
I've said it before - and I'll say it again - the idea of Congress prohibiting federal courts from hearing cases about certain issues is the stupidest thing Republicans have ever come up with.
www.tothepeople.com /2006/07/on-road-to-serfdom-republicans-are.html   (234 words)

  
 Road to Serfdom and Legacy - by MWHodges
Road to Serfdom and Legacy - by MWHodges
in his classic, 'The Road to Serfdom,' warning of government interference with the economy.
Permission to redistribute all or part of this series for non commercial purposes is granted by the author, provided the associated web page address is included and full credit given to the Grandfather Economic Report and the author, Michael Hodges.
home.att.net /~mwhodges/summary-b.htm   (3551 words)

  
 The Road to Serfdom
No doubt about it, Hayek's The Road to Serfdom was explosively controversial from the beginning, especially his case that all forms of collectivism lead to tyranny.
In any case, The Road to Serfdom filled the first 20 pages of the April 1945 Reader's Digest under a banner headline drawn from Hazlitt's review: "One of the Most Important Books of Our Generation." This brought Hayek's story to about 8 million people in the U.S. alone.
While Nazis, communists and socialists are potential recruits made of the right timber for each othre, they all know that there can be no compromise between them and those who really believe in individual freedom.
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Lobby/2193/serfdom.1.html   (3310 words)

  
 "Road" Scholar
Sixty years ago, master mapmaker Friedrich Hayek gave us his seminal work “The Road to Serfdom.” It was swiftly condensed by Reader’s Digest, and became an international best seller.
In print and in person, Hayek was eloquent in his explanations of why the road to prosperity is paved with freedom – both economic freedom and personal freedom.
Today, six decades after “The Road to Serfdom” first hit bookshelves, it’s still a critical roadmap for where we should go and what we must – and must not – do.
www.heritage.org /Press/Commentary/ed022604c.cfm   (660 words)

  
 Remapping the 'Road to Serfdom' - The Washington Times: Commentary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
F.A. Hayek, one of the greatest liberals of the 20th century, wrote his classic book "The Road to Serfdom" 60 years ago to warn against the dangers posed by postwar socialism.
In "The Road to Serfdom" and other works, Hayek expounded those liberal principles and warned against protectionism and other forms of social planning.
He understood that substituting socialist ends (in particular, "freedom from want") for capitalist means (competition and choice) would destroy the very freedom necessary for a great society.
www.washtimes.com /commentary/20040313-103738-9983r.htm   (766 words)

  
 The Road To Serfdom
While to the Nazi the communist and to the communist the Nazi, and to both the socialist, are potential recruits made of the right timber, they both know that there can be no compromise between them and those who really believe in individual freedom.
Neither the Gestapo nor the administration of a concentration camp, neither the Ministry of Propaganda nor the SA or SS (or their Russian counterparts) are suitable places for the exercise of humanitarian feelings.
Yet it is through such positions that the road to the highest positions in the totalitarian state leads.
www.jim.com /hayek.htm   (6049 words)

  
 Commentary: China's Road from Serfdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
It was the genius of Nobel Prize-winning economist F.A. Hayek to point out in his 1944 book "The Road to Serfdom" that a government that regiments the economy will end up regimenting all of private life too.
The road to freedom includes not only economic liberty but civil, cultural and religious liberty as well.
To be sure, there are those on the left and right in the U.S. and other democracies who still resist the logic of liberty, favoring only one or two free sectors while supporting government controls in others.
www.acton.org /ppolicy/comment/article.php?id=7   (972 words)

  
 Road to Serfdom, The
Further, he showed that the very forms of government that England and America were supposedly fighting abroad were being enacted at home, if under a different guise.
Further steps down this road, he said, can only end in the abolition of effective liberty for everyone.
Capitalism, he wrote, is the only system of economics compatible with human dignity, prosperity, and liberty.
www.mises.org /store/Road-to-Serfdom-The-P252C1.aspx?AFID=1   (455 words)

  
 Road to Serfdom and Legacy - by MWHodges
Road to Serfdom and Legacy - by MWHodges
in his classic, 'The Road to Serfdom,' warning of government interference with the economy.
Permission to redistribute all or part of this series for non commercial purposes is granted by the author, provided the associated web page address is included and full credit given to the Grandfather Economic Report and the author, Michael Hodges.
mwhodges.home.att.net /summary-b.htm   (3570 words)

  
 ››› buch.de - bücher - versandkostenfrei - The Road to Serfdom - Friedrich A. Von Hayek
››› buch.de - bücher - versandkostenfrei - The Road to Serfdom - Friedrich A. Von Hayek
F. Hayek's timeless meditation on the relation between individual liberty and government authority, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century.
This anniversary edition commemorates the enduring influence of The Road to Serfdom on the ever-changing political and social climates of the twentieth century, from the rise of socialism after World War II to the Reagan and Thatcher "revolutions" in the 1980s and the transitions in Eastern Europe from communism to capitalism in the 1990s.
www.buch.de /buch/03525/300_the_road_to_serfdom.html   (223 words)

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