Appeals to liberate growers from their serfdom to the champagne houses are no longer in fashion.
The road to digital serfdom is paved in good intentions, of course, or at least mundane intentions.
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Hayek wrote a best-selling polemic railing against economic planning, The Road to Serfdom, shortly after World War II.
However different the Renaissance serfdom's literacy is from today's tech-forward consumer crowd, they both seem to be doing the same thing.
Feudalism had withered in most of western Europe by the middle of the 16th century, but serfdom didn't end formally in Russia until 1861.
Seven decades have passed since The Road to Serfdom was published.
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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It concentrates on the Golovin family from Obukhovo, a village renamed when the new serfdom of collectivisation arrived, the church bells taken away to be melted down as peasants ululate.
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.
As the story unfolds, Jane struggles with the demands of being on both the mommy track and the tenure track, as well as with the sense that her seemingly emancipated life has some queasy similarities to Masha's wifely serfdom.
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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