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Article: The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism.
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- January 28, 1989
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THE FATAL CONCEIT: THE ERRORS OF SOCIALISM
FRIEDRICH HAYEK, author of "The Road to Serfdom" and "The Constitution of Liberty", will be 90 this year. Remarkably, his new book is as passionate and disputatious as anything he has written. As well as adding up to a powerful manifesto against socialism, it is a fully accessible account of many of the main strands of Mr Hayek's thinking. Politicians on the left, who have made him a figure of knee-jerk hatred, and those on the right, who bow down equally brainlessly before him, no longer have any excuse for ignoring what he has actually said.
Despite its brevity, the book ranges over economics, political ...