Varro, an ancient Roman writer, in his work “Res Rusticae” (“Village affairs”), which is a manual on the management of slave-run estates, says that a slave is a “talking tool” (compared to “half-mute ...

In 1944, with World War II raging and the fate of the Free World far from clear, Friedrich A. Hayek (1889?1992), one of the great intellectual heroes of reason, published his best-known work. The Road ...

The Russian emancipation reform of 1861 eventually sunk the country into chaos. We show how it happened step by step. The abolition of serfdom in Russia was a complex and multi-layered process that ...

Friedrich Hayek published The Road to Serfdom in 1944, a classic book on economics for the ages. We would do well to understand his message, because it reads today less like a theory and more like a ...

Government is taking us a long way down the Road to Serfdom. That doesn't just mean that more of us must work for the government. It means that we are changing from independent, self-responsible ...

This month, advocates of free enterprise celebrate 80 years since F.A. Hayek (1899-1992) published The Road to Serfdom. It is also approximately 80 years since the ideology of Peronism took hold in ...

Journal Editorial Report: One is for big government. The other wants to shrink it. Photo: Mandel Nganerin Schaff/AFP via Getty Images Friedrich Hayek submitted “The Road to Serfdom” to three American ...

Last Saturday I had the honor of addressing the 50th anniversary meeting of the Philadelphia Society. The title of the meeting was “The Road Ahead—Serfdom or Liberty?” My remarks sought to suggest ...

Every day, more see that the road to serfdom in America does not involve a knock in the night or a jack-booted thug. It starts with smooth-talking politicians offering seemingly innocuous compromises, ...