Hartill (flyleaf inscription dated May 1944). Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, and the British Conservatives Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 June 2009 Jeremy Shearmur Article Metrics Get access Share Cite Rights & Permissions Extract Over the years, Friedrich Hayek has received a generous response from some members of the British Conservative Party. The Road to Serfdom, one of the most noteworthy books of the twentieth century, has been published in several dozen languages and has seen printing after. Publisher’s black cloth, titled in gilt on spine, dust-jacket (jacket lightly toned and spotted with tiny chips to spine ends, endpapers lightly spotted) modern cloth solander box. Hartill, managing director of the Minton pottery factory at Stoke-on-Trent. An extraordinary revival of interest in his book occurred in 2010 when an American TV personality described it as 'a Mike Tyson (in his prime) right hook to socialism in Western Europe and in the United States' (reported in New York Times, 9 July 2010).

Hayeks most influential book was his The Road to Serfdom (. He won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1974. Although far from being his most intellectually important, there is little doubt that Friedrich A. Hayek's most important work offers a defence of market libertarianism and the system of private property, and attacks the central economic planning associated with a socialist state. London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1944.įirst edition, in the scarce dust-jacket, of a landmark of 20 th -century economic and political philosophy.

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