Originally published: London : George Routledge, 1944.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- 1: Abandoned road -- 2: Great utopia -- 3: Individualism and collectivism -- 4: Inevitability of planning -- 5: Planning and democracy -- 6: Planning and the rule of law -- 7: Economic control and totalitarianism -- 8: Who, whom? -- 9: Security and freedom -- 10: Why the worst get on top? -- 11: End of truth -- 12: Socialist roots of Nazism -- 13: Totalitarians in our midst -- 14: Material conditions and ideal ends -- 15: Prospects of international order -- 16: Conclusion -- Bibliographical note -- Index.

A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Published in England in the spring of 1944 when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program. The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For F.A. Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with increasing economic control would inevitably lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of Nazi Germany and fascist Italy. First published by the University of Chicago Press on September 18, 1944, The Road to Serfdom garnered immediate attention from the public, politicians, and scholars alike.