The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents - The Definitive Edition

Hayek, F.A.

ISBN 10: 0226320553 / ISBN 13: 9780226320557

Edité par University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007

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8vo, 283 pp., The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, Volume 2. Edited by Bruce Caldwell.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents - The Definitive Edition
• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press, Chicago
• Date de parution: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0226320553
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780226320557
• Reliure: softcover
• Édition: 1st.
• État de l'article: Fine copy
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Economics

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Synopsis

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.

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 twenty 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 

À propos des auteurs

F. A. Hayek (1899-1992), recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991 and co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974, was a pioneer in monetary theory and a leading proponent of classical liberalism in the twentieth century. He taught at the University of Vienna, University of London, University of Chicago, and University of Freiburg.

Bruce Caldwell is research professor of economics and the director of the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University. He is the general editor of the Collected Works of F. A. Hayek series, also published by the University of Chicago Press.