ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF THE ORIGINAL WORK

Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1899, Friedrich Hayek would go on to found the influential Austrian Institute of Economic Research. After teaching at the London School of Economics in the 1930s, Hayek became a British subject in 1938, the year Austria was annexed by Adolf Hitler’s Germany. Hayek was concerned about how tyranny could develop out of excessive government control of economic planning. This led him to write The Road to Serfdom. Hayek would become one of the most influential political economists of the twentieth century. He died in 1992 at the age of 92.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF THE ANALYSIS

David Linden is doing postgraduate work on the new right at King’s College London. He works as an editor at Svenskt Militärhistoriskt Bibliotek in Stockholm.

Nick Broten was educated at the California Institute of Technology and the London School of Economics. He is doing postgraduate work at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and works as an assistant policy analyst at RAND. His current policy interests include designing distribution methods for end-of-life care, closing labour market skill gaps, and understanding biases in risk-taking by venture capitalists.

ABOUT MACAT

GREAT WORKS FOR CRITICAL THINKING

Macat is focused on making the ideas of the world’s great thinkers accessible and comprehensible to everybody, everywhere, in ways that promote the development of enhanced critical thinking skills.

It works with leading academics from the world’s top universities to produce new analyses that focus on the ideas and the impact of the most influential works ever written across a wide variety of academic disciplines. Each of the works that sit at the heart of its growing library is an enduring example of great thinking. But by setting them in context – and looking at the influences that shaped their authors, as well as the responses they provoked – Macat encourages readers to look at these classics and game-changers with fresh eyes. Readers learn to think, engage and challenge their ideas, rather than simply accepting them.