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The Road to Serfdom Summary & Study Guide Description
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The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek is a powerful analysis of how the use of economic planning leads to the evils of totalitarianism when economic planning replaces the markets. A democracy is based on individual freedoms. Individuals have the freedom to make their own choices and decisions. One of the choices and decisions regards the choice of occupation and employment. A market allocates resources, one of which is labor, to different uses in response to market conditions. This happens automatically through changes in wages and prices without direction from a commissar. The market results in an efficient use of resources with output production in accordance with the preferences of consumers.
Planning that takes the place of the markets robs the individual of this freedom of choice. The only way the planners can reallocate resources, including labor, is by the use of force. Therefore, one of the freedoms given...
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