The Road to Serfdom, Text and Documents: The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, Volume II [2])

xi, [1], 283, [1] pp. A new edition released as part of Hayek's collected works, including a new foreword and introduction by editor Bruce Caldwell, as well as the preface to the original editions, the foreword to the 1956 American paperback edition, the preface to the 1976 edition, and the original introduction. Index follows text. A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in England in the spring of 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program—The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For F. A. Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with increasing economic control would inevitably lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of Nazi Germany and fascist Italy.