HAYEK, Friedrich August von.

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The Road to Serfdom. First edition, in the dust jacket, which was printed on flimsy wartime paper and rarely survives.Hayek's classic polemic against centralization and collectivism is among the most influential and popular expositions of classical liberalism and libertarianism ever published and "far and away the most eloquent and straightforward statement of his political and economic outlook that Hayek ever achieved" (ODNB).Though in the short term the book failed to halt the rapid extension of government power into economic life, over the next few decades it inspired countless proponents of economic liberty, became a foundation of the revival of liberal economics, and at last prevailed in the Thatcher and Reagan projects.

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