The Road to Serfdom (Hayek), as stated, 1944
20th Century · stated scope
The Road to Serfdom is a book authored by economist Friedrich Hayek, published in 1944 by the University of Chicago Press and Routledge in the United Kingdom. It is principally associated with arguments connecting centralized economic planning to the erosion of political liberty, and with the tradition of classical liberalism and free-market thought.
Cluster:Liberty First
Liberty is the defining elevation, with Consent & Anti-Coercion running high beside it; Authority & Hierarchy sits low. Individual freedom leads the profile rather than any collective commitment.
Full profile
All 22 dimensions in one fixed order, grouped by the contrast axis each feeds, so any two entities can be read side by side. Switch to “By axis” to group them by the axis each feeds.
Neighbors
- 1U.S. Bill of Rights, as stated, 1791Distance: 11Compare
- 2Two Treatises of Government (Locke), as stated, 1689Distance: 13Compare
- 3Classical Liberalism, as stated, 18th-19th c.Distance: 14Compare
- 4Monetarism, as stated, 1950s-presentDistance: 14Compare
- 5Centrism, as stated, 20th c.-presentDistance: 15Compare
The Three Axes (Detail)
Each bar is one pole’s pull, pointing the way it pushes the result. The dot is where the two pulls add up.