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The preface explains why the author treats the work as a duty despite expected offense to many, and addresses claims that personal interests determine his conclusions. The book’s structure outlines themes such as planning, democracy, the rule of law, economic control, totalitarianism, truth, socialist influences, and the prospects of international order.","YHO人MaN pue uopuo7  \nuopuas 01 peoy ayl  \nyə人eHV  \nFirst published 1944by George Routledge&Sons  \nFirst published in Routledge Classics 2001  \nby Routledge  \n2 Park Square,Milton Park,Abingdon,OX144RN  \n270 Madison Avenue,New York,NY 10016  \nReprinted 2001,2002,2003,2004,2006  \nRoutledge is an imprint of the Taylor Q Francis Group,an informa business  \n1944F.A.Hayek  \nTypeset in Joanna by RefineCatch Limited,Bungay,SuffolkPrinted and bound in Great Britain byTJ International Ltd,Padstow,Cornwall  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this book may be reprintedor reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic,mechanical,or other means,now known or hereafterinvented,including photocopying and recording,or inany information storage or retrieval system,withoutpermission in writing from the publishers.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication DataA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library  \nISBN 10:O-415-25543-0(hbk)  \nISBN 10:O-415-25389-6(pbk)  \nISBN 13:978-0-415-25543-1(hbk)  \nISBN 13:978-0-415-25389-5(pbk)  \nThe Road to Serfdom  \n'This book has become a true classic:essential readingfor everyone who is seriously interested in politics inthe broadest and least partisan sense.'  \nMilton Friedman  \n'This book should be read by everybody.It is no usesaying that there are a great many people who are notinterested in politics;the political issue discussedby Dr Hayek concerns every single member of thecommunity.'  \nThe Listener  \nRoutledge Classics contains the very best of Routledgepublishing over the past century or so,books that have,by popular consent,become established as classics intheir field.Drawing on a fantastic heritage of innovativewriting published by Routledge and its associatedimprints,this series makes available in attractive,affordable form some of the most important works ofmodern times.  \nFor a complete list of titles visitwww.routledgeclassics.com  \nCONTENTS  \nPREFACE  \nvii  \nIntroduction  \n1 The Abandoned Road102 The Great Utopia243 Individualism and Collectivism4 The\"Inevitability\"of Planning5 Planning and Democracy6 Planning and the Rule of Law  \n3345  \n5975  \n7 Economic Control and Totalitarianism918 Who,Whom?1059 Security and Freedom12310 Why the Worst Get on Top13811 The End of Truth15712 The Socialist Roots of Nazism17113 The Totalitarians in our Midst18614 Material Conditions and Ideal Ends20715 The Prospects of International Order225  \nvi CONTENTS  \n245  \n# CoNCLUSION\n\nBIBLIOGRAPHICAL NoTEIN DEX  \n247  \n# PREFACE\n\nWhen a professional student of social affairs writes a politicalbook,his first duty is plainly to say so.This is a political book.Ido not wish to disguise this by describing it,as I might perhapshave done,by the more elegant and ambitious name of an essayin social philosophy.But,whatever the name,the essential pointremains that all I shall have to say is derived from certain ultim-ate values.I hope I have adequately discharged in the book itselfa second and no less important duty:to make it clear beyonddoubt what these ultimate values are on which the wholeargument depends.  \nThere is,however,one thing I want to add to this.Though thisis a political book,I am as certain as anyone can be that thebeliefs set out in it are not determined by my personal interests.Ican discover no reason why the kind of society which seems tome desirable should offer greater advantages to me than to thegreat majority of the people of this country.In fact,I am alwaystold by my socialist colleagues that as an economist I shouldoccupy a much more important position in the kind of society to  \nwhich I am opposed—provided,of course,that I could bringmyself to accept their views.I feel equally certain that my opposi-tion to these views is not due to their 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