What the heck’s going on with Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom?
Adam David Morton | January 25, 2026
More than eighty years on, what the heck’s going on with Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom and how can we make sense of the text today?
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Posts Tagged ‘Friedrich Hayek’
Questioning the Utopian Springs of Market Economy
Adam David Morton | October 31, 2018
A new special issue of the journal Globalizations has just been published and brings together articles on Karl Polanyi and Friedrich Hayek that were initially presented, or otherwise have their origins, in an international conference ‘Questioning the Utopian Springs of Market Economy’, held [...]
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Why I Wrote ‘The End of Laissez-Faire?’
Damien Cahill | June 1, 2015
This is a modified version of the talk I gave at the Sydney and Naples launches of my book, The End of Laissez-Faire? On the Durability of Embedded Neoliberalism.
The genesis of this book was my dissatisfaction with dominant accounts of the global financial crisis and its implications [...]
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Labour and Neoliberalism: Victim or Vanguard?
Damien Cahill | January 26, 2015
Earlier this year Ed Miliband, leader of the British Labour Party, addressed a specially organised gathering of business leaders with the following words: “I would be a prime minister who champions the rights of the consumer and the rights of businesses to succeed and make profits in a [...]
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Gareth Dale, ‘The Perils of Social Integration’
January 14, 2015
The seventieth anniversary of the publication of two seminal political economy texts arrived in 2014. In 1944 both Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation and Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom were published, delineating very different pathways to the utopian springs constituting and [...]
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Philip Mirowski, ‘Polanyi vs Hayek?’
January 14, 2015
The seventieth anniversary of the publication of two seminal political economy texts arrived in 2014. In 1944 both Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation and Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom were published, delineating very different pathways to the utopian springs constituting and [...]
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Sandra Halperin, ‘Polanyi’s Two Transformations Revisited: A “Horizontal” Perspective’
January 14, 2015
The seventieth anniversary of the publication of two seminal political economy texts arrived in 2014. In 1944 both Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation and Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom were published, delineating very different pathways to the utopian springs constituting and [...]
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More and Lots of It: Neoliberal Resilience in the Face of Crisis
Damien Cahill | December 12, 2014
Those on the Left often see the deregulatory ideologies of neoliberalism as a primary cause of the global economic crisis. Given this perceived failure, neoliberalism’s persistence can seem puzzling. But, as I argue in my new book The End of Laissez-Faire?: On the Durability of Embedded [...]
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