TY - GEN AU - Hayek, F.A. AU - Caldwell, Bruce, Ed. TI - Road to Serfdom: text and documents SN - 9780226320557 U1 - 338.9 PY - 2007/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - BUSINESS &​ ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General KW - BUSINESS &​ ECONOMICS -- Reference KW - Economic policy. KW - Totalitarianism N2 - A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual history and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians and scholars for half a century. Originally published in 1944, it was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with increasing economic control would lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. This new edition includes a foreword by series editor and leading Hayek scholar Bruce Caldwell explaining the books origins ER -