Friedrich Hayek · Economics

The Road to Serfdom

Hayek’s wartime warning that central economic planning, however well-intentioned, tends to concentrate power and lead toward tyranny rather than freedom.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Hayek linked economic planning to political tyranny. Reconstruct his argument for why planning concentrates power, and the main objection to it, in your own words.

Leads to Margaret Thatcher.

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