Review: The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents
User Review - Brittany - GoodreadsThe historical analysis upon which this book depends amounts to nothing more than extremely poor scholarship masquerading as thoughtful contrarianism. Hayek's conflation of Nazism with Socialism ... Read full review
Review: The Road to Serfdom
User Review - Dave - GoodreadsThis is better explained in Thomas Sowell's “Conflict of Visions “. If you are interested in the difference between two market systems central planning and market planning then read Sowell. This was written a long time ago and it is covered by others in much better detail and readability. Read full review
Review: The Road to Serfdom
User Review - Ethan Mckenzie - GoodreadsFrankly, it's crap. A hackneyed polemic- and almost managed to argue me out of stances I agreed with the author on before reading it. He's deliberately obtuse in arguments in support of his beliefs ... Read full review
Review: The Road to Serfdom
User Review - Eric - GoodreadsThis book is wrong-headed and mistaken--not in its diagnosis (that freedom is threatened by centralized control of economies) but in every other particular. 1) Market economies are not exempt from ... Read full review
Review: The Road to Serfdom
User Review - Alister - GoodreadsThis book is a classic example of what it's like to be proven wrong in every way only a few years after making a prediction. And yet dolts still read it. Odd. Read full review
Review: The Road to Serfdom
User Review - Trent Crable - GoodreadsI imagine that at the time it was published, and for some time thereafter, this book probably deserved far more than "one star." My rating is in consideration that its likely sole use (to the extent ... Read full review
Review: The Road to Serfdom
User Review - Aniruddha - GoodreadsThe Road to Serfdom is a book that has divided the post-war divided world. In developed countries that practice capitalism, Hayek's book created a stir although his influence was a shadow of the ... Read full review
Review: The Road to Serfdom
User Review - Lou - GoodreadsAbsurd Pamphlet! This is a very silly book, deliberately deceiving... if you read it, don't take it literally. Read full review
Review: The Road to Serfdom
User Review - Ivis García - GoodreadsThere is an old cartoon (found here) which summarizes the logic of this work rather perfectly. Essentially, the government gets involved in your life, they dictate how you live, then they kill you ... Read full review
Review: The Road to Serfdom
User Review - Brian - GoodreadsI find it hard to believe the average rating for this book is over 4. Maybe I just wasn't in the right frame of mind for this book, but I found it to be exceptionally preachy, dated and just plain out and out boring. Read full review
