The Road to Serfdom Revisited
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Alongside Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead (1943), The Road to Serfdom (1944) by Friedrich A. Hayek is one of the foundational texts for libertarian American conservatism as exemplified by Milton Friedman’s economics writings and Ronald Reagan’s assertions that “government is the problem.” I was therefore fascinated by a recent article in an economics journal on “The Road to […]
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