J. V. Bruni and Company
1528 North Tejon Street
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80907
(719) 575-9880 or (800) 748-3409
J. V. Bruni and Company1528 North Tejon Street Colorado Springs, Colorado 80907 (719) 575-9880 or (800) 748-3409
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The Road to Serfdom,
by Friedrich Hayek.  This book was written in England in
1944, while future Nobel Prize winner (in economics) Hayek was an
Austrian refugee from Nazi-occupied Europe. Hayek covers a lot of
ground in this relatively short work, ranging from his thoughts on
individualism and collectivism to his comparisons between 1940s era
Britain, Germany and, to a lesser extent, Russia. He finds fewer
meaningful distinctions between National Socialism (the roots of the
German Nazi party) and Soviet-style socialism than others might expect.
Further, he contends that not only the more totalitarian socialism in
Germany but also the more democratic socialism of Britain lead down the
same road to tyranny. This book shook up the intellectual world when it
was written, and Hayek’s work is as thought-provoking today as it was
over 50 years ago. |
“This book has become a true classic: essential reading for everyone who is seriously interested in politics in the broadest and least partisan sense, a book whose central message is timeless, applicable to a wide variety of concrete situations.” Milton Friedman |