that we are the victims of some evil power which must be conquered before we can resume the road to better things? However much we may differ when we name the culprit -- whether it is the wicked ...

We will all end up working for the Government. Hayek would have recognised what was happening. In his classic 1944 book The Road To Serfdom he described how welfare states would evolve over time.

He has been described as the 20th century's leading philosopher of liberty. Hayek found international fame with the publication of The Road to Serfdom in 1944, an account of how democratic socialism ...

But Hayek's views are more complex than many of his fans realize, says UAB philosopher and economist Erik Angner. Austrian economists are hot these days. In 2010, The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A.