具体描述
In the last years of World War II, Friedrich Hayek wrote The Road to Serfdom. He warned the allies that policy proposals which were being canvassed for the post-war world ran the risk of destroying the very freedom for which they were fighting. On the basis of 'as in war, so in peace', economists and others were arguing that the government should plan all economic activity. Such planning, Hayek argued, would be incompatible with liberty, and had been at the very heart of the movements that had established both communism and Nazism.
On its publication in 1944, the book caused a sensation. Neither its British nor its American publisher could keep up with demand, owing to wartime paper rationing. Then, in 1945, Reader's Digest published The Road to Serfdom as the condensed book in its April edition. For the first and still the only time, the condensed book was placed at the front of the magazine instead of the back. Hayek found himself a celebrity, addressing a mass market.
The condensed edition was republished for the first time by the IEA in 1999 and has been reissued to meet the continuing demand for its enduringly relevant and accessible message.
用户评价
##和1984一起看，就能更理解西方社会为什么这么反共。
评分##果然condensed...后面的cartoon很有意思
评分##精简版的，很短
评分##当然是英文版的比较好一点，就算是有点看不明白
评分##这么危险的写法完全不好评价啊
评分##learn to read it in a critical eye
评分##learn to read it in a critical eye
评分##这么危险的写法完全不好评价啊
评分我很讨厌很讨厌很讨厌哈耶克的观点，很反感很反感他对planning的嗤之以鼻和他鼓吹的decentralization plus automatic coordination through the price system，但又很奇怪很奇怪他对communism的过于精准乃至成了预言的推论。因此我现在在图书馆憋了一肚子气，只能在心中上演星球大战而脸不变色。
