{"product_id":"the-road-to-serfdom-fiftieth-anniversary-edition-9780226320595","title":"The Road to Serfdom  Fiftieth Anniversary Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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 1944when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin  and Albert Einstein subscribed lock  stock  and barrel to the socialist programThe 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.  First published by the University of Chicago Press on September 18  1944  The Road to Serfdom garnered immediate attention from the public  politicians  and scholars alike. The first printing of 2 000 copies was exhausted instantly  and within six months more than 30 000 were sold. In April of 1945  Readers Digest published a condensed version of the book  and soon thereafter the Book-of-the-Month Club distributed this condensation to more than 600 000 readers. A perennial best-seller  the book has sold over a quarter of a million copies in the United States  not including the British edition or the nearly twenty translations into such languages as German  French  Dutch  Swedish  and Japanese  and not to mention the many underground editions produced in Eastern Europe before the fall of the iron curtain.  After thirty-two printings in the United States  The Road to Serfdom has established itself alongside the works of Alexis de Tocqueville  John Stuart Mill  and George Orwell for its timeless meditation on the relation between individual liberty and government authority. This fiftieth anniversary edition  with a new introduction by Milton Friedman  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.  F. A. 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.  On the first American edition of The Road to Serfdom: \"One of the most important books of our generation. . . . It restates for our time the issue between liberty and authority with the power and rigor of reasoning with which John Stuart Mill stated the issue for his own generation in his great essay On Liberty. . . . It is an arresting call to all well-intentioned planners and socialists  to all those who are sincere democrats and liberals at heart to stop  look and listen.\"Henry Hazlitt  New York Times Book Review  September 1944  \"In the negative part of Professor Hayeks thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too oftenat any rate  it is not being said nearly often enoughthat collectivism is not inherently democratic  but  on the contrary  gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamt of.\"George Orwell  Collected Essays\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45788400648245,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226320596","price":239.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226320595.jpg?v=1784644834","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-road-to-serfdom-fiftieth-anniversary-edition-9780226320595","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}