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The Road to Serfdom

Friedrich Hayek · first published 1944

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  1. Cass Sunstein on Conversations with Tyler (2025-11-26): critique

    “…I think the fundamental argument of The Road to Serfdom isn't true…”

    Cass Sunstein on Liberalism and Rights in the Age of AI (Ep. 262)

  2. Cass Sunstein on Conversations with Tyler (2025-11-26): mention

    “…A road to someplace we don't want to go is a less riveting title than The Road to Serfdom…”

    Cass Sunstein on Liberalism and Rights in the Age of AI (Ep. 262)

  3. Jennifer Burns on Lex Fridman Podcast (2025-01-20): mention

    “…he writes this book that becomes incredibly famous, The Road to Serfdom, basically saying…”

    Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #457

  4. Javier Milei on Lex Fridman Podcast (2024-11-19): mention

    “…and this is proven in Hayek’s book, the Road to Serfdom, that any middle ground solution is unstable…”

    Javier Milei: President of Argentina - Freedom, Economics, and Corruption | Lex Fridman Podcast #453

  5. Tyler Cowen on EconTalk (2023-11-27): recommend

    “…The Road to Serfdom, I much prefer.…”

    Tyler Cowen on the GOAT of Economics

  6. Tyler Cowen on EconTalk (2023-11-27): recommend

    “…Also, Road to Serfdom is a wonderful book, and much maligned.…”

    Tyler Cowen on the GOAT of Economics

  7. Zach Carter on Conversations with Tyler (2020-12-02): mention

    “…In his letter to Hayek about The Road to Serfdom, he discusses this in greater detail.…”

    Zach Carter on the Life and Legacy of John Maynard Keynes (Ep. 110)

  8. Russ Roberts on Conversations with Tyler (2019-06-05): critique

    “…Don’t read it. It’s really slow going. It’s not that interesting.…”

    Russ Roberts on Life as an Economics Educator (Ep. 68)

  9. Raghuram Rajan on Conversations with Tyler (2019-03-13): mention

    “…So to some extent, Hayek's The Road to Serfdom — I think essentially one way of looking at that…”

    Raghuram Rajan on Understanding Community (Ep. 62)

  10. Michael Munger on EconTalk (2019-02-25): mention

    “…let's go back to 1944, when Hayek published The Road to Serfdom…”

    Michael Munger on Crony Capitalism

  11. Michael Munger on EconTalk (2019-02-25): mention

    “…We're obviously trying to riff on Hayek's Road to Serfdom.…”

    Michael Munger on Crony Capitalism

  12. Frank Dikötter on EconTalk (2018-08-06): mention

    “…This is treated[?] in Hayek's book, The Road to Serfdom.…”

    Frank Dikotter on Mao's Great Famine

  13. Jennifer Burns on EconTalk (2017-10-23): mention

    “…if you read The Road to Serfdom and other works…”

    Jennifer Burns on Ayn Rand and the Goddess of the Market

  14. Michael Munger on EconTalk (2017-01-16): mention

    “…In Chapter 9 of Road to Serfdom, Hayek talks about security…”

    Michael Munger on the Basic Income Guarantee

  15. Will Davies on EconTalk (2016-03-07): mention

    “…But The Road to Serfdom, which was his 1944 book, which in a way was written in the depths of despair…”

    Will Davies on the Economics, Economists, and the Limits of Neoliberalism

  16. Alvin Roth on EconTalk (2015-07-06): recommend

    “…This is a quote from his free-market manifesto, The Road to Serfdom.…”

    Alvin Roth on Matching Markets

  17. Rs on EconTalk (2013-09-04): mention

    “…in 1944 Hayek published his Road to Serfdom, his famous critique of central planning…”

    Capitalism, Government, and the Good Society

  18. Angus Burgin on EconTalk (2013-03-18): mention

    “…as we discussed in The Road to Serfdom and his other writings…”

    Angus Burgin on Hayek, Friedman, and the Great Persuasion

  19. Angus Burgin on EconTalk (2013-03-18): mention

    “…when you look back at The Road to Serfdom.…”

    Angus Burgin on Hayek, Friedman, and the Great Persuasion

  20. Angus Burgin on EconTalk (2013-03-18): mention

    “…Hayek had done a little of that on the Road to Serfdom lecture tour.…”

    Angus Burgin on Hayek, Friedman, and the Great Persuasion

  21. Angus Burgin on EconTalk (2013-03-18): mention

    “…author of The Road to Serfdom, which came out in 1944, he really emphasized…”

    Angus Burgin on Hayek, Friedman, and the Great Persuasion

  22. Angus Burgin on EconTalk (2013-03-18): mention

    “…that fed into his writing of The Road to Serfdom.…”

    Angus Burgin on Hayek, Friedman, and the Great Persuasion

  23. Angus Burgin on EconTalk (2013-03-18): mention

    “…It's almost like you took The Road to Serfdom and put it in a blender…”

    Angus Burgin on Hayek, Friedman, and the Great Persuasion

  24. Don Boudreaux on EconTalk (2012-12-17): mention

    “…Hayek's got a few paragraphs in The Road to Serfdom where he says the state can do x, y, and z…”

    Don Boudreaux on Reading Hayek

  25. Don Boudreaux on EconTalk (2012-12-17): mention

    “…He's got some passages in The Road to Serfdom where he says…”

    Don Boudreaux on Reading Hayek

  26. Don Boudreaux on EconTalk (2012-12-17): mention

    “…The Road to Serfdom was the first, in 1944.…”

    Don Boudreaux on Reading Hayek

  27. Don Boudreaux on EconTalk (2012-12-17): mention

    “…He wrote his most famous work, to this day, The Road to Serfdom.…”

    Don Boudreaux on Reading Hayek

  28. Larry White on EconTalk (2012-05-28): mention

    “…So, The Road to Serfdom is not simply a summary of Hayek's criticism of socialism or market socialism…”

    Larry White on the Clash of Economic Ideas

  29. Larry White on EconTalk (2012-05-28): mention

    “…Hayek's Road to Serfdom is reviewed by an economist named Evan Durbin…”

    Larry White on the Clash of Economic Ideas