The Road to Serfdom is a short book by the Austrian-born economist F. A. Hayek, written in London during the Second World War and published by Routledge in March 1944 and by the University of Chicago Press that September. Hayek dedicated it to the socialists of all parties.
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F. A. Hayek
About F. A. Hayek
Friedrich August von Hayek (1899–1992) was born in Vienna, served as an artillery officer on the Italian front in the First World War, and took doctorates in law and political science at the University of Vienna, where he joined the circle of the economist Ludwig von Mises. After directing the Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research, he was appointed in 1931 to the Tooke Chair at the London School of Economics and became a British subject in 1938. He founded the Mont Pelerin Society in 1947, taught at the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought from 1950 to 1962 and later at Freiburg and Salzburg, and wrote The Constitution of Liberty (1960) and Law, Legislation and Liberty (1973–1979). He shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Gunnar Myrdal in 1974 and died in Freiburg in 1992.