The Road to Serfdom: Library Edition

from IFREF

Wow! I took nine pages of notes about freedom and economics while reading. I can see whay it's the seminal text for free market economists and political conservatives. Doesn't touch the relationship of religion to capitalism other than to defend morality.

from RandyStafford

The five star rating isn't for the philosophical contents of this book. When I get around to reading it, I'll probably give just as high a rating to Das Kapital, Hayek's opposition. The rating reflects the value of reading extremely influential books for yourself to see how distorted their reputa...

from AmagiTDL

Although Hayek was an economist, this book (and much of his writings) were more along the lines of philosophical inquiries. I think this book is very important in understanding the 20th century and political philosophy in general. This is definitely one of the most important books to come out of ...

from ORFisHome

Wow! I took nine pages of notes about freedom and economics while reading. I can see whay it's the seminal text for free market economists and political conservatives. Doesn't touch the relationship of religion to capitalism other than to defend morality.

from WouterGil

Masterly refutation of socialism and planeconomy. In the present era his arguments(written down in 1943) sometimes seem outdated or at least very unoriginal. But I guess this just underlines that he is the intellectual godfather of todays liberals and perhaps to a lesser extent libertarians.