Mises Daily
Author:
Garet Garrett
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[ American Affairs , Vol. 11, No. 1 (1949), pp. 46–48] For the acclaim it received at the time, Friedrich A. Hayek’s small book, The Road to Serfdom , owed nothing to style and everything to its intensity of feeling and the immediacy of the subject matter. It was written to make the British shudder. The voice was that of a Viennese economist who