Hayek, F. A.: The Road to Serfdom

W.H. Auden called the 1930's 'a low dishonest decade'. While some may have fallen victim to this malaise, Friedrich Hayek did not. Five years into the war against the Nazis, he published a work of seminal insight and clarity. It bears reading and reflection today.

University of Chicago Press rightly touts one of its prized publications, Hayek, F. A.: The Road to Serfdom:

"An unimpeachable 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 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 lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy."