Product Description An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel 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 lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. First published by the University of Chicago Press on September 18, 1944, The Road to Serfdom garnered immediate, widespread attention. The first printing of 2,000 copies was exhausted instantly, and within six months more than 30,000 books were sold. In April 1945, Reader’s Digest published a condensed version of the book, and soon thereafter the Book-of-the-Month Club distributed this edition to more than 600,000 readers. A perennial best seller, the book has sold 400,000 copies in the United States alone and has been translated into more than twenty languages, along the way becoming one of the most important and influential books of the century. With this new edition, The Road to Serfdom takes its place in the series The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek. The volume includes a foreword by series editor and leading Hayek scholar Bruce Caldwell explaining the book's origins and publishing history and assessing common misinterpretations of Hayek's thought. Caldwell has also standardized and corrected Hayek's references and added helpful new explanatory notes. Supplemented with an appendix of related materials ranging from prepublication reports on the initial manuscript to forewords to earlier editions by John Chamberlain, Milton Friedman, and Hayek himself, this new edition of The Road to Serfdom will be the definitive version of Friedrich Hayek's enduring masterwork.
1978年，年届80高龄，与形形色色的社会主义战斗了一生的哈耶克，希望让这场论战有个了断。他设想举行一次正式的大辩论，地点很可能是在巴黎，让社会主义的主要理论家与知识界中赞成市场秩序的领军人物对垒。他们所要讨论的问题是：“社会主义是错误的吗？”赞成市场秩序的人将会证明，不管是以科学、事实还是逻辑为根据，社会主义都是错误的，而且历来如此；本世纪社会主义思想在许多实践领域的应用屡屡遭受的失败，从整体上说便是这些科学谬误的直接后果。哈耶克把支持自由市场的主要论点写在一份宣言里，然后又压缩成了这本小书。
F.A.哈耶克是20世纪西方最重要的自由主义理论家、经济学家和政治哲学家之一，诺贝尔经济学奖获得者。在这本论文集中，他围绕着同一个议题，在由道德哲学、社会科学研究方法，到经济政策、经济学理论的诸领域内展开论述。本书的部分文章延续了其经典著作《通往奴役之路》一书中对自由市场与计划经济的探讨，另一些则是较为专业的论文。
《通往奴役之路》一书在哈耶克的学术生涯中占有极其重要地位，这本书为他赢得广泛的注意，他的世界性声誉就是由此奠定的。他在这本书中论证道，当时正在计划中的福利国家不是为个人自由的战斗在和平时期的继续，倒是朝着专制的方向迈出了一步。因此，他认为追求计划经济，其无意识后果必然是极权主义。为了反对这种计划经济，哈耶克有力地重申了他一贯坚持的古典自由主义观点，同时，也允许适度的政府活动，但这仅限于符合他的法治概念的那些活动形式。应该强调的是，哈耶克的自由主义包括对许多有用的社会制度的赞赏，但这些制度只能是人的自发行动的后果，而不能是人设计的结果。这一论点是从休漠、亚当・斯密和苏格兰历史学派那里继承过来的，它在哈耶克的著作中占据了重要位置。由此出发，哈耶克认为，良好的社会不是简单地依赖于在政府所提供的法律框架内追求私利，相反，它应依赖于一套复杂的法律、道义传统和行为规则的框架，这套框架的特点应该为大多数社会成员所理解和认同。 这部著作从问世直到今天，一直在学术界中存有争议。其中，一个重要原因在于这本书本身的内在悖论。我们知道，哈耶克这本书的观点来源于关于市场和其它非主观设计的制度所具有的“自发秩序”的特性的思想。这种思想使哈耶克遇到一些难以解决的问题，使他不可避免地陷于社会进化和团体选择的争端之中。他对选择机制特点的论述与自由主义的关系并不总是清楚的。这些论点的非理性特征与其高度理性的几近乌托邦的新自由主义思想，形成鲜明的对照。《通往奴役之路》一书所存在的这种缺陷，日后也为作者本人意识到，他在后来出版的《自由宪章》和《法律、立法和自由》三部曲中，多处涉及这个难题，试图将古典自由主义与“进代”的主题结合起来。至于这一尝试成功与否，尚有待评说，但哈耶克及其著作无疑对学术界产生了重要影响，并对政治思想领域中古典自由主义的复兴发挥了极大的作用。
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Product Description An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel 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 lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. First published by the University of Chicago Press on September 18, 1944, The Road to Serfdom garnered immediate, widespread attention. The first printing of 2,000 copies was exhausted instantly, and within six months more than 30,000 books were sold. In April 1945, Reader’s Digest published a condensed version of the book, and soon thereafter the Book-of-the-Month Club distributed this edition to more than 600,000 readers. A perennial best seller, the book has sold 400,000 copies in the United States alone and has been translated into more than twenty languages, along the way becoming one of the most important and influential books of the century. With this new edition, The Road to Serfdom takes its place in the series The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek. The volume includes a foreword by series editor and leading Hayek scholar Bruce Caldwell explaining the book's origins and publishing history and assessing common misinterpretations of Hayek's thought. Caldwell has also standardized and corrected Hayek's references and added helpful new explanatory notes. Supplemented with an appendix of related materials ranging from prepublication reports on the initial manuscript to forewords to earlier editions by John Chamberlain, Milton Friedman, and Hayek himself, this new edition of The Road to Serfdom will be the definitive version of Friedrich Hayek's enduring masterwork.