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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

This is What Planning Gets Ya

I had to sit through almost a three hour discussion of the merits of communism and central planning. While we were talking about committed lefties like Charles Beard and Edmund Wilson I couldn't help but think of Frederich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom. Hayek, correctly, argued that a planned economy will always lead to serfdom and slavery. So, I thought I'd post a link to the Illustrated Road to Serfdom, which offers a concise summery of Hayek's overall argument. (click the image to view)

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