The Road to Serfdom: The Definitive Edition by Friedrich A. Von Hayek and Bruce Caldwell (2007, Paperback)

Synopsis
The Road to Serfdom book is an unimpeachable classical work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history and economics. The topics featuring in this inspirational book has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers like you for half a century. The content in this book by Caldwell and Hayek explains its origins and publishing history along with the assessment on common misinterpretations of Hayek's thought. The authors of this inspirational book provide with standardized and corrected references along with explanatory notes for your reference. The authors of the Road to Serfdom book have also included an appendix of related materials that further enhance your knowledge of the subject.

Key Details
Author:	Bruce Caldwell, Friedrich A. Von Hayek
Language:	English
Publisher:	Univ of Chicago Pr
Series:	COLLECTED WORKS OF F A HAYEK
Format:	Paperback
ISBN-10:	0226320553
ISBN-13:	9780226320557

Size
Length:	257 pages
Thickness:	0.8 in
Weight:	16 oz

Publisher's Note
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 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 will be the definitive version of Friedrich Hayek's enduring masterwork.