The Road to Serfdom, the Definitive Edition.nfo
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Title: The Road to Serfdom, the Definitive Edition
Author: F. A. Hayek, Bruce Caldwell - editor
Read By: William Hughes
Genre: Nonfiction: Economics
Copyright: 2007
Audiobook Copyright: 2017
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Release date: 2017-06-20
Duration: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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Book Description
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An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to
Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and the public 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.
First published by the University of Chicago Press on September 18, 1944, The Road to Serfdom garnered immediate,
widespread attention. The first printing of 2,000 copies was exhausted instantly, and within six months more than 30,000
books were sold. In April 1945, Reader's Digest published a condensed version of the book, and soon thereafter the Book-
of-the-Month Club distributed this edition to more than 600,000 readers. A perennial best seller, the book has sold
400,000 copies in the United States alone and has been translated into more than 20 languages, along the way becoming
one of the most important and influential books of the century.
With this new edition, The Road to Serfdom takes its place in the series the Collected Works of F. A. Hayek. The volume
includes a foreword by series editor and leading Hayek scholar Bruce Caldwell explaining the book's origins and
publishing history and assessing common misinterpretations of Hayek's thought. Caldwell has also standardized and
corrected Hayek's references and added helpful new explanatory notes. Supplemented with an appendix of related materials
ranging from prepublication reports on the initial manuscript to forewords to earlier editions by John Chamberlain,
Milton Friedman, and Hayek himself, this new edition of The Road to Serfdom is the definitive version of Hayek's
enduring masterwork.
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