Are We Still on the Road to Serfdom?

In this lecture from 1984, Eamonn Butler talks about Friedrich Hayek’s 1944 classic, The Road to Serfdom.

Eamonn Butler

Eamonn Butler is Director of the Adam Smith Institute, a leading think tank in the UK. He holds degrees in economics and psychology, a PhD in philosophy, and an honorary DLitt. A former winner of the Freedom Medal of Freedom’s Foundation at Valley Forge and the UK National Free Enterprise Award, Eamonn is currently Secretary of the Mont Pelerin Society. Butler is the author of many books, including introductions on the pioneering economists Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, F. A. Hayek, and Ludwig von Mises. He has also published primers on Classical Liberalism, Public Choice, Magna Carta, the Austrian School of Economics, and great liberal thinkers, as well as The Condensed Wealth of Nations and The Best Book on the Market. His Foundations of a Free Society won the 2014 Fisher Prize.

Eamonn Butler is an author on economic and social issues and the director and co-​founder of the Adam Smith Institute.

In this lecture from 1984, Butler talks about Friedrich Hayek’s 1944 classic, The Road to Serfdom. He reviews the path to a totalitarian society that Hayek sketches in the short book, and comes to the conclusion that for the most part the Western world is done with heavy-​handed authoritarian experimentation.