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The Road to Serfdom: Freedom in Crisis | Citizenship Course, Season 7
Why civil liberty matters in both economics and politics
Completed · 18 episodes
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Hayek’s Warning: How Is a Road to Serfdom Paved? 1. When Freedom Becomes the Scapegoat: In What Climate Was The Road to Serfdom Written? 2. The Origins of Hayek’s Economics: Can Economic Development Really Be Predicted? 3. Examining Collectivism: Why Does a Road Paved with Good Intentions Keep Departing from Freedom? 4. Confused Freedom: Can Planning Really Prevent Waste? 5. The Law Is Not Necessarily “Right”: Why Is Law Closely Connected to Economic Freedom? 6. Who Defines My Happiness? Why Planned Economies Tend Toward Coercion 7. A Debate at the Brink: The Historical Setting of the Hayek–Keynes Dispute 8. Even Buying a Jacket Can Deepen a Depression: Hayek on Economic Crisis and Its Remedy 9. What Centralization and Planning Destroy: Can We Choose Well When Prices Disappear? 10. Economists Who Cared About Politics: Why Did Hayek and Keynes Differ So Deeply? 11. Information Sustains the Economy: How Can We Make Better Economic Decisions? 12. The Balance and Limits of Free Competition: Does Hayek Simply Mean Laissez-Faire? 13. Rivals and Friends: How Encounters with Keynes Redirected Hayek’s Thought 14. The Arrogance of Reason: Can Planning Everything Destroy Social Rationality? 15. The Iron Curtain Descends: How Did Hayek Narrow the Postwar World’s Political Imagination? 16. The Paradox of Freedom: Giving Everyone Economic Liberty Does Not by Itself Create a Free Economy 17. A “Nostalgist” at Century’s End: Was Hayek’s Standing as an Economist Questioned Because He Was Out of Step?