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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1944. First American Edition. Very Good. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with spine stamped in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with fading to spine and tarnishing to gilt, spotting and light soiling to cloth and minor wear at extremities. Rubber stamp and inkless emboss of the Bristol-Myers Co. on front free end paper. Former owner's stamp on half-title. Minor offsetting at endsheets with light toning to contents. The classic liberal account warning against tyrannical government control of the economy.

"The Road to Serfdom," written by Friedrich Hayek in 1944, is a seminal text that critiques centralized economic planning and collectivism. Hayek argues that state control over the economy inevitably leads to a loss of personal freedoms and the rise of authoritarianism. He emphasizes the importance of free markets and individual liberty as essential defenses against the encroachment of totalitarian rule. The book remains a powerful discourse on the relationship between economic systems and political freedom, warning of the dangers of surrendering too much power to the state.