The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek [FIRST EDITION • SIXTH IMPRESSION] 1945 • University of Chicago

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The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek

FIRST EDITION • SIXTH IMPRESSION [1945] UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Antique hardcover with dust jacket in very good reading condition.

Dust jacket has considerable wear and tear; several torn edges, but otherwise clean and in tact, with original price of 2.75 on front panel. Now housed in a new HQ dust jacket protector.

Book itself has some wear to brown cloth boards with a few blemishes. Otherwise, clean tight and reads beautifully.

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.

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.