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An unimpeachable basic work in political beliefs, intellectual and social record, and economics, The Highway to Serfdom has influenced and infuriated politicians, scholars, and the general public for half a century. Originally publicized in 1944 - when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program - The Highway to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning from the dangers of express control over the means of creation. For F. A. Hayek, the collectivist notion of empowering federal government with increasing economical control would lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. First publicized by the School of Chicago Press on Sept 18, 1944, The Highway to Serfdom garnered immediate, widespread attention. The first printing of 2,000 copies was exhausted instantly, and within six months more than 30,000 catalogs were sold. In April 1945, Reader's Digest publicized a condensed version of the booklet, and soon thereafter the Book-of-the-Month Team distributed this release to more than 600,000 readers. A perennial best vendor, the booklet has sold 400,000 copies in america together and has been translated into more than 20 languages, along the way becoming one of the most important and influential catalogs of the century. With this new release, The Highway to Serfdom took its devote the series the Collected Works of F. A. Hayek. The volume includes a foreword by series editor and leading Hayek scholar Bruce Caldwell describing the book's origins and publishing record and examining common misinterpretations of Hayek's thought. Caldwell has also standardized and corrected Hayek's referrals and added helpful new explanatory notes. Supplemented with an appendix of related materials ranging from prepublication studies on the original manuscript to forewords to prior editions by John Chamberlain, Milton Friedman, and Hayek himself, this new release of The Highway to Serfdom is the definitive version of Hayek's enduring masterwork.
