The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism.

From: The Economist (US) | Date: January 28, 1989 | Copyright information

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 ri...

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