American Decades
The Road to Serfdom
Nonfiction work
By: Friedrich A. Hayek
Date: 1944
Source: Hayek, Friedrich A. The Road to Serfdom: A Classic Warning Against the Dangers to Freedom Inherent in Social Planning. Reprint edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.
About the Author: Friedrich A. Hayek (1899–1992), an Austrian economist, served as the Took Professor of Economic Science and Statistics at the University of London from 1931 to 1950. In 1950, he became Professor of Social and Moral Science at the University of Chicago. He taught at the University of Freiburg, Germany, from 1962 to 1967. Hayek received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974.
Introduction
As the 1940s began, Keynesian economic theory was the primary guide of U.S. public policy. This theory took its name from its founder, English economist, journalist, and financier John Maynard Keynes. In his influential...
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1940's Government and Politics Primary Sources
- "The Four Freedoms"
- "Franklin D. Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Speech"
- Letter from James Y. Sakamoto to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority
- "Letters from Los Alamos"
- The Road to Serfdom
- "Serve Your Country in the WAVES"
- "Charter of the United Nations Preamble"
- "President Harry S. Truman's Address Before a Joint Session of Congress, March 12, 1947"
- The Testimony of J. Edgar Hoover Before the House Un-American Activities Committee
- "Address by General George C. Marshall Secretary of State of the United States at Harvard University, June 5, 1947"
- "Dewey Defeats Truman"
- "Communists Should Not Teach in American Colleges"
- "Wipe Out Discrimination"
- "Indian Self-Government"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
