具體描述
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.
用戶評價
##嗯，說要再讀一遍的
評分##"Planning and competition can be combined only by planning for competition, not by planning against competition."
評分##精簡版的，很短
評分我很討厭很討厭很討厭哈耶剋的觀點，很反感很反感他對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對communism的過於精準乃至成瞭預言的推論。因此我現在在圖書館憋瞭一肚子氣，隻能在心中上演星球大戰而臉不變色。
評分##"Planning and competition can be combined only by planning for competition, not by planning against competition."
評分##The first book that Casey recommended to me - very political and philosophical, but nonetheless interesting arguments.
評分##我看的是全本 不過暫且標記之
評分##果然condensed...後麵的cartoon很有意思
評分##"Planning and competition can be combined only by planning for competition, not by planning against competition."
