Word
Gems
What is a
man but the sum of his thoughts?
Wealth
& Economics:
- F. A. Hayek's
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- The Road
to Serfdom
- "... the single most influential political book
published in Britain during this century." History Today
- "Nearly half a century ago, most of the smart people
sneered when Hayek published The Road to Serfdom. The world was wrong and Hayek
was right." Forbes
- "The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated
politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in
England in the spring of 1944--when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin,
Albert Einstein subscribed to the socialist program... The Road to Serfdom was
seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the
means of production. For F. A. Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with
increasing economic control would inevitably lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of
Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy." from the 50th anniversary edition
- "How sharp a break not only with the recent past but
with the whole evolution of Western civilization the modern trend toward socialism means
becomes clear if we consider it not merely against the background of the nineteenth
century but in a longer historical perspective. We are rapidly abandoning not the views
merely of Cobden and Bright, of Adam Smith and Hume, or even of Locke and Milton, but one
of the salient characteristics of Western civilization as it has grown from the
foundations laid by Christianity and the Greeks and Romans... The Nazi leader who
described the National Socialist revolution as a counter-Renaissance spoke more truly than
he probably knew." F. A. Hayek
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