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The Road to Serfdom Study Guide

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by Friedrich Hayek
About 33 pages (9,839 words)
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The book opens with Hayek commenting on the state of affairs. Society is threatened by various evils even though they have tried to overcome the barbarians of the past and move toward freedom. They look for every reason to explain the current situation except that it is the result of their own errors. Italy, Germany, and Russia are the results of the development in thought processes that they have all shared. Totalitarianism has come into existence. (read more)
      Chapter 1, The Abandoned Road
      Chapter 2, The Great Utopia
      Chapter 3, Individualism and Collectivism
      Chapter 4, The 'Inevitability' of Planning
      Chapter 5, Planning and Democracy
      Chapter 6, Planning and the Rule of Law
      Chapter 7, Economic Control and Totalitarianism
      Chapter 8, Who, Whom
      Chapter 9, Security and Freedom
      Chapter 10, Why the Worst Get on Top
      Chapter 11, The End of Truth
      Chapter 12, The Socialist Roots of Nazism
      Chapter 13, The Totalitarians in our Midst
      Chapter 14, Material, Conditions and Ideal Ends
      Chapter 15, The Prospects of International Order
      Chapter 16, Conclusion

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