The Road to Serfdom: ch 12-13
12 The Socialist Roots of Nazism The doctrines of National Socialism are the culmination of a long evolution of thought. The men who produced the
12 The Socialist Roots of Nazism The doctrines of National Socialism are the culmination of a long evolution of thought. The men who produced the
11 The End of Truth The most effective way to make everybody serve the single system of ends towards which the social plan is directed
I worked in construction as a mason for about 12 years. If you don’t know, a mason works with bricks, block, stone, and in our
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
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
8 Who, Whom? One of the most common objections to free-market competition is that it is blind. But we picture justice as a lady with
When I was working in construction, I was surrounded by guys from Mexico that spoke mostly Spanish. So I decided I’d try and learn Spanish
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
We had inherited an old 1976 Ford Granada from my in-laws back in the day. Granada means either grenade, or pomegranate in Spanish. I don’t
6 Planning and the Rule of Law The Rule of Law is that the government is bound in all its actions by rules fixed and
“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“
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