" Hayek's the Road to Serfdom Revisited: Government Failure in the Argument against Socialism ", Eastern Economic Journal Vol.

Serfdom reached Eastern European centuries later than Western Europe — it became dominant around the 15th century.

Serfdom developed in Eastern Europe after the Black Death epidemics, which not only stopped the migration but depopulated Western Europe.

" Notes on Serfdom in Western and Eastern Europe ," Journal of Economic History March 1973 33: 86-99 in JSTOR

Serfdom in Western Europe came largely to an end in the 15th and 16th centuries, because of changes in the economy, population, and laws governing lord-tenant relations in Western European nations.

" Serfdom: Western Europe " in Peter N. Stearns, ed, Encyclopedia of European Social History: from 1352-2000 ( 2001 ) volume 2 pp 369 – 78

Peter tightened Serfdom by banning them from volunteering for military service and thus escaping serfdom.

* 1861 – Serfdom is abolished in Russia.

Hayek was concerned about the general view in Britain's academia that fascism was a capitalist reaction to socialism and The Road to Serfdom arose from those concerns.

At the arrangement of editor Max Eastman, the American magazine Reader's Digest also published an abridged version in April 1945, enabling The Road to Serfdom to reach a far wider audience than academics.

The economist Walter Block observed critically that while The Road to Serfdom is " a war cry against central planning ," it does show some reservations with a free market system and laissez-faire capitalism, with Hayek even going so far as to say that " probably nothing has done so much harm to the liberal cause as the wooden insistence of some liberals on certain rules of thumb, above all the principle of laissez-faire.

Hayek was disappointed that the book did not receive the same enthusiastic general reception as The Road to Serfdom had sixteen years before.

Hayek later sent him a Russian translation of The Road to Serfdom.

In his popular book, The Road to Serfdom ( 1944 ) and in subsequent academic works, Hayek argued that socialism required central economic planning and that such planning in turn leads towards totalitarianism.

On the other hand, The Road to Serfdom is one of the great books of our time.

Informal discussions with colleagues and friends stimulated a greater interest, which was reinforced by Friedrich Hayek's powerful book The Road to Serfdom, by my attendance at the first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society in 1947, and by discussions with Hayek after he joined the university faculty in 1950.

For example, Hayek's discussion in The Road to Serfdom ( 1944 ) about truth, falsehood and the use of language influenced some later opponents of postmodernism.

* The Road to Serfdom, 1944.

" F. A. Hayek and The Road to Serfdom: A Sixtieth Anniversary Appreciation " ( The Freeman,

" Freedom, Planning, and Totalitarianism: The Reception of F. A. Hayek's Road to Serfdom ", Canadian Review of American Studies

" Reaction to the Road to Serfdom.

* " The Road from Serfdom ", Thomas W. Hazlett, Reason, July 1992, includes his 1977 interview with Hayek

* Mises. org The Road to Serfdom in cartoons – The cartoon-booklet version.

* The Road to Serfdom in cartoons – The cartoon-booklet version as a video.

) – Serfdom is abolished in Imperial Russia.

* October 9 – Serfdom is abolished in Prussia by law.

* Serfdom is abolished in Livonia.

For his part, Keynes praised Hayek's book The Road to Serfdom, writing to the Austrian economist that, " Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it.

" Serfdom in later medieval and early modern Germany " in T. H. Aston et al., Social Relations and Ideas: Essays in Honour of R. H. Hilton ( Cambridge UP, 1983 ), 249-72

* The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A Hypothesis, discussion and full online text of Evsey Domar ( 1970 ), " The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A Hypothesis ", Economic History Review 30: 1 ( March ), pp. 18 – 32.

Readings have included Sophocles ' Antigone, Plato's Gorgias, St. Augustine ’ s Confessions, Marx and Engels ’ The Communist Manifesto, Dubois ’ The Souls of Black Folk, Hayek ’ s The Road to Serfdom, Gramsci ’ s Prison Notebooks, Strauss ’ s Natural Right and History, and King ’ s Letter from Birmingham Jail.

After reading Hayek's The Road to Serfdom, Keynes wrote to Hayek saying: " Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it " but concluded the same letter with the recommendation: On the pressing issue of the time, whether deficit spending could lift a country from depression, Keynes replied to Hayek's criticism in the following way:

In The Road to Serfdom, Hayek argued that " Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life which can be separated from the rest ; it is the control of the means for all our ends.

In The Road to Serfdom, Hayek argued that " Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life which can be separated from the rest ; it is the control of the means for all our ends.

* Bolivian Indians see Rocky Exodus from Serfdom by the Associated Press, January 2, 2010

* An excerpt from the book Serfdom to Self-Government: Memoirs of a Polish Village Mayor, 1842 – 1927.

Friedrich Hayek mentions in his 1944 book The Road to Serfdom the danger of a support of monopolistic organisation of industry from WWII political remnants:

In The Road to Serfdom, Hayek argued that " Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life which can be separated from the rest ; it is the control of the means for all our ends.

The Road to Serfdom is a book written by the Austrian-born economist and philosopher Friedrich von Hayek ( 1899 – 1992 ) between 1940 – 1943, in which he " warned of the danger of tyranny that inevitably results from government control of economic decision-making through central planning ," and in which he argues that the abandonment of individualism, classical liberalism, and freedom inevitably leads to socialist or fascist oppression and tyranny and the serfdom of the individual.

Among the notable surviving works of that period are A Meeting of the Four Years ' Sejm ( 1793 ) and Kościuszko's Oath at Kraków's Old Town Market ( 1797 ), Lithuanian Peasants, Freeing Peasants from Serfdom in Merkinė.

** published in America as The Road from Serfdom: The Economic and Political Consequences of the End of Communism