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The Road to Serfdom

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THERE are some who regard this War as liable to become economically a war against the middle class, as indeed the War of 1914ndash;18 was as touching the middle classes in Germany. Even were this the case I do not know that it would greatly awaken my sympathy. By their chauvinistic short-sightedness they have ‘asked for’ their own extinction. They correspond to the national phase in human development. They made the National State and will perish with it. However, Prof. Hayek undertakes to show us the way by which they and others will travel to that total servile State, which he, along with Dr. Friedmann, sees as the next phase.

The Road to Serfdom

By F. A. Hayek. Pp. viii + 184. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1944.) 10s. 6d. net.

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CATLIN, G. The Road to Serfdom. Nature 154, 473–474 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154473a0

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