Category: Political Theory

The Road to Serfdom: ch 10

10 Why the Worst Get On Top Many have attributed the most repellent parts of totalitarian regimes to a historical accident that they happened to

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The Road to Serfdom: ch 9

9 Security and Freedom “the whole of society will have to become a single office and a single factory with equality of work and equality

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The Road to Serfdom: ch 7

7 Economic Control and Totalitarianism Planners who have seriously considered how to make planning work know that it must be under dictatorial conditions. The argument

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The Road to Serfdom: ch 5

5 Planning and Democracy Adam Smith paraphrase: The statesman who would attempt to direct private people in how they should employ their capital, would not

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The Road to Serfdom: ch 4

4 The “Inevitability” of Planning The usual tactic of planners is to say, not that planning is desirable, but to say it is necessary since

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