Hayek wrote a best-selling polemic railing against economic planning, The Road to Serfdom, shortly after World War II.

BBC: Masters of Money: Friedrich Hayek

Seven decades have passed since The Road to Serfdom was published.

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If you've heard Hayek's name, it will have been as Keynes' arch enemy - the "Austrian" economist who wrote the Road to Serfdom and believed that markets should be as free as humanly possible.

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The Road to Serfdom by F.

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Some recommendations: The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek, The Way the World Works by Jude Wanniski, yours truly's Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS, and the recent columns of Brian Wesbury and Robert Stein, as well as those of David Malpass.

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The road to digital serfdom is paved in good intentions, of course, or at least mundane intentions.

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From this, it can easily be seen how difficult it is to say with assurance whether we are on the road to recovery or on a path to serfdom.

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