Word: serfdom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indian study, Wah'kon-tah, the first university press book to become a Book-of-the-Month); Princeton (which he left to become, briefly, president of Oklahoma), and the University of Chicago, where he has continued to publish salable books by scholars (a recent one. The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich Hayek...
...Road to Serfdom. "There is to be one state to which all are to be obedient in every act of their lives. This state is to be arch-employer, arch-planner, arch-administrator and ruler and arch-caucus boss. How is an ordinary citizen or subject of the King to stand up against this formidable machine, which, once it is in power, will prescribe for every one of them where they are to work, what they are to work at, where they may go and what they may say, what views they are to hold and within what limits they...
Aroused by Friedrich A. Hayek's controversial "Read to Serfdom," which he brands an "filled with every fallacy known brands an "filled with every fallacy known to the study of logic," Herman Finer, visiting lecturer on Government, announces that he is writing a "Road to Reaction" as an answer to what he considers "dangerous and deceptive" reasoning...
...long as the corpse of the capitalist economy continues to exist." Thus declared Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, speaking last night together with Wassily W. Leontief, associate professor of Economics, and Abbott P. Usher '04, professor of Economics, on the topic "Is the planned economy 'the Road to Serfdom'?" at the first forum of the newly-organized Harvard Political Science Forum...
...however," stressed Sorokin, "a partisan of totalitarian economy. I am merely 'a conservative Christian anarchist'; I do not like any government." With this declaration, Harvard's stormy sociologist clarified his position in the controversy that, is currently raging over Friedrich A. Hayek's new book "The Road to Serfdom...