The Road to Serfdom (video)

I desire to start in 1945. Weapons had become quiet in Western Europe. The bullets had stopped. Air above is no longer filled with screams of a fighter. Attacks and the fighting were no longer. Allied forces had won, and the Second World War was over. But it was far from the end. Another, perhaps more importantly, the war had just begun. Europe was destroyed, both politically and structurally faces a daunting task starts over.

First published by University of Chicago Press, 18 September 1944 the road to Serfdom immediately gathered much notice. First print 2000 copies had been used immediately, and within six months of more than 30,000 books had been sold. April 1945 Reader's Digest published a condensed version of the book, and soon after, book-of-the-Month Club distributed this edition, more than 600 000 readers. After several years of best-selling book sold 400 000 copies in the United States alone and been translated into over twenty languages, along the way become one of the most important and influential books century.

This new edition, the road to Serfdom place in a series of collected works of FA Hayek. Amount includes a Foreword by series editor and a leading researcher Bruce Caldwell Hayek explains the origin of the book and publishing history and assessing common misinterpretations of Hayek's thinking. Caldwell has also standardized and corrected Hayek's references to add useful new notes. Appendix material related to complement the always prepublication reports on the original manuscript of the foreword to the past versions of John Chamberlain, Milton Friedman and Hayek himself, this new edition Tie Serfdom is the final version of Friedrich Hayek lasting work of art.