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Published by Alianza Editorial · Economics and business · ISBN 9788420651682

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An essay published in 1944, in the middle of the Second World War, by the Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek, who would win the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974. Hayek argues that central planning of the economy ends up destroying individual freedom and leads towards totalitarianism, and he disputes the then common view that fascism was a reaction of capitalism: for him, Nazism and state socialism grow from the same collectivist root.

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For readers interested in political economy, classical liberalism and the Austrian school, and for anyone who wants a central text in the debate between markets and planning. It is worth reading alongside its critics: Karl Polanyi and Jeffrey Sachs, among others, rejected its conclusions.
Why people still read it
Translated into about 20 languages, it had sold over two million copies by 2010, and an abridged version in Reader's Digest in 1945 brought it to a wide audience. It shaped 20th-century political debate, especially among American conservatives and libertarians, and even its critics received it with respect; Keynes and Schumpeter praised it.

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