The Road to Serfdom was written to address the likely mode of government in Post-War Britain but his powerful critique of the planned economy has proved to be much more widely applicable.

Hayek himself had rooms in King's College (hence the use of King's headed stationery for the note which Hayek inserted into this book) - an arrangement organised by none other than J.M. Hayek considered his powerful polemic to be his war-work it was written during the wartime period when the London School of Economics, where Hayek had taught since 1931, was evacuated to Cambridge. THE AUTHOR'S PERSONAL COPY OF ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, OUTLINING THE THREAT POSED BY CENTRAL PLANNING TO PERSONAL LIBERTY, WITH THE RARE DUST JACKET. Hayek') and pencil note ('published March 10th, 1944') on front free endpapers, an autograph list of 12 early reviews (including 'Observer 9/4 (George Orwell)') in blue ink on the rear endpapers, a small number of corrections (pp.39, 107, 111) and marginal notes (pp.130-31 and 137), a press cutting of a satirical poem on 'World-Planners' on the front paste-down, and an autograph manuscript transcription of another satirical poem ('For the Tomb of Economic Man') on headed stationery of King's College, Cambridge, loosely inserted, original black cloth, titled in gilt on spine, DUST-JACKET folded and loosely inserted, binding rubbed, wear to spine and corners, adhesive residue to upper cover London: George Routledge & Sons, 1944įIRST EDITION, 8vo, THE AUTHOR'S COPY with his ownership inscription in dark blue ink ('F.A.

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