《The Road to Serfdom》简介：

In the last years of World War II, Friedrich Hayek wrote The Road to Serfdom. He warned the allies that policy proposals which were being canvassed for the post-war world ran the risk of destroying the very freedom for which they were fighting. On the basis of 'as in war, so in peace', economists and others were arguing that the government should plan all economic activity. Such planning, Hayek argued, would be incompatible with liberty, and had been at the very heart of the movements that had established both communism and Nazism.

On its publication in 1944, the book caused a sensation. Neither its British nor its American publisher could keep up with demand, owing to wartime paper rationing. Then, in 1945, Reader's Digest published The Road to Serfdom as the condensed book in its April edition. For the first and still the only time, the condensed book was placed at the front of the magazine instead of the back. Hayek found himself a celebrity, addressing a mass market.

The condensed edition was republished for the first time by the IEA in 1999 and has been reissued to meet the continuing demand for its enduringly relevant and accessible message.

《The Road to Serfdom》摘录：

一般说来，各个人的教育和知识越高，他们的见解和趣味就越不相同，而他们赞同某种价值等级制度的可能性就越少。这或许是事实。其结果必然是：如果我们希望找到具有高度一致性和相似性的观念，我们必须降格到道德和知识标准比较低级的地方去，在那里比较原始的和“共同”的本能与趣味占统治地位。