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The Road to Serfdom Turns 80

The Nobel Prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek is recognized as one of the most important advocates of liberty in the 20th century. The work that earned him this distinction was The Road to Serfdom, published in 1944 and dedicated “To the socialists of all parties.” The central thesis of the book is the incompatibility of central economic planning and a society of free individuals. This article reviews the origins and some of the key arguments of this seminal work in economic thought.

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Ojel L. Rodríguez Burgos

June 5, 2024
The Road to Serfdom

The Role of Government and the free Market

The free-market system allows the individual to interact freely for the satisfaction of his conception of the good life within the rule of law. The individual as an agent is the main actor within the market; however, private, or public businesses and the State itself also figure as actors in the free market. In this article, we present the three ways in which the State acts in the free market.

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Ojel L. Rodríguez Burgos

January 3, 2023
Government and the free Market

Freedom and the Rule of Law

The word freedom is used constantly, but little understood; to understand it, it is important to see the State as a civil association of individuals, where different ways of living and purposes coexist. This coexistence depends on a rule of law, which allows individuals to pursue their conception of the good life consistent with the rules of the association. The freedom requires a rule of law, which allows free action and cooperation of individuals in the market and thus benefits the economy.

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Ojel L. Rodríguez Burgos

August 29, 2022
Freedom and the Rule of Law

Make Public Education a Market Economy—Not a Socialist One

Nobel laureate Milton Friedman once compared our nation’s education system to “an island of socialism in a free-market sea.” Similarly, nearly 30 years ago, the then-president of the American Federation for Teachers Albert Shanker wrote, “It’s time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody’s role is spelled out in advance, and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It’s no surprise that our school system doesn’t improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.”

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Peter Greene
January 5, 2018
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