![]() ![]() With the Thatcher and Reagan projects, Hayek’s ideas found their audience. Yet over the 1970s, the book became something of a manifesto for the small group of academics, politicians, and commentators who sought to challenge the established order, and a foundation text of the surgent neoliberal movement. For three decades following the war, the book lingered as the ghost at the feast, as the Western welfare states, led by interventionist governments backed with Keynesian macroeconomic policy, cemented their position in what seemed an unassailable new order. Published in 1944, the book met a wide readership with numerous printings in quick succession, yet made little impact in a war-torn world. ![]() If books change the world, The Road to Serfdom was a delayed fuse. ![]()
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