If the individual cannot keep what they earn, cannot build, cannot invest, cannot act without permission, then the income from tourism is nothing but a fleeting ...

Everything about society sets us up to become subservient to the pursuit of the mortgage — but bitcoin changes that. Real estate ownership is the core aspiration driving the Modern Serfdom Model. Debt ...

When I first began to study the history of slavery around the world, many years ago, one of the oddities that puzzled me was the practice of paying certain slaves, which existed in ancient Rome and in ...

There are always politicians who say that things were better in the past. And the top judicial official in Russia is one of them — he appears to be advocating a return to serfdom. Valery Zorkin, the ...

In recent years, conservative Republicans have become surprisingly aggressive in shaping an agenda to change the U.S. Constitution. In 2010, we heard from a variety of far-right candidates, many of ...

If the University of Chicago Press had listened to one of its reader’s reports, it might not have published one of its best-selling books of all time. The story of how Chicago came to issue The Road ...

There is blame on both sides of the political aisle for our current economic mess. But the siren call of socializing failing sectors of the economy - whether in banking, housing, health care or in ...

Journal Editorial Report: One is for big government. The other wants to shrink it. Photo: Mandel Nganerin Schaff/AFP via Getty Images Friedrich Hayek submitted “The Road to Serfdom” to three American ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Not for the first time, Glenn Beck has demonstrated preternatural powers. The Fox News presenter has apparently ...

In 1944, my good friend, the late Nobelist Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992), published the Road to Serfdom. It immediately became an international sensation. In it, Hayek argued that government ...

President Obama is taking over production in the American economy. President Bush admitted to doing the same with the banking, real estate and insurance industry bailouts, proclaiming he "abandoned ...