HAYEK'S 'SERFDOM' REVISITED. ESSAYS BY ECONOMISTS, PHILOSOPHERS AND POLITICAL SCIENTISTS ON 'THE ROAD TO SERFDOM' AFTER 40 YEARS

Published by The Institute Of Economic Affairs., London,, 1984, softcover,142 pages, condition: as new.

The book revisits Hayek's central thesis that excessive state intervention in the economy can lead to a loss of individual liberty and a path towards totalitarianism.

"Hayek's Serfdom Revisited," published by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), is a collection of essays that re-examines Friedrich Hayek's seminal work, "The Road to Serfdom," forty years after its initial publication. The book explores the continuing relevance of Hayek's ideas on individual freedom, the dangers of centralized economic planning, and the importance of spontaneous order in society. 

Friedrich Hayek was an Austrian-born British academic and philosopher. He is known for his contributions to political economy, political philosophy and intellectual history. Hayek shared the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Gunnar Myrdal for work on money and economic fluctuations, and the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena. His account of how prices communicate information is widely regarded as an important contribution to economics that led to him receiving the prize.He was a major contributor to the Austrian school of economics.