George Orwell wrote a review of Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom in 1944 the same year Orwell “encapsulate[d] the thesis at the heart of his novel”. It’s clear that Orwell was greatly influenced by chapter 11 of Hayek’s book, “The End of Truth”. From the appendix to . . . → Read More: SEMINAR: Hayek’s _The Road to Serfdom_ (post #4 – Orwell)
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I am sure that I owe most of the original ideas I have ever had to the fact that I did _not_ have the conventional answers to the well-known questions already, that I had painfully to work them out anew almost every time, and that in the process I often discovered the flaws or inadequacies of the generally held views. — F. A. Hayek