{"product_id":"2026100007176-secondhand-road-to-reaction","title":"Road To Reaction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: pages can have notes\/underlining. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn one of the most pointed intellectual rebuttals of the twentieth century, Road to Reaction mounts a rigorous and unrelenting assault on Friedrich Hayek's enormously influential The Road to Serfdom, dismantling its central arguments with surgical precision. Herman Finer, a distinguished political scientist and professor, contends that Hayek's libertarian vision — which warned that state intervention in economic life inevitably leads to totalitarianism — is not only historically unfounded but dangerously misleading, a prescription for social regression dressed in the language of freedom. Drawing on a commanding grasp of economic history, political theory, and the realities of democratic governance, Finer presents a passionate defence of the planned economy and the welfare state as the true guarantors of human liberty.\n\nWritten with polemical fire and scholarly authority, the work stands as a landmark document in the contest of ideas that defined the post-war political landscape. Finer's style is combative and direct, refusing to grant Hayek's premises an inch, and his argument resonates with an urgency born from the catastrophic failures of laissez-faire economics in the preceding decades. For any reader seeking to understand the great ideological fault lines of modern democratic thought — between market fundamentalism and social democracy — this fierce and erudite tract remains as provocative and vital as the day it was written.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130938630363,"sku":"2026100007176-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/e9521509-17db-4603-b166-c3b8d6a763e9.png?v=1786592862","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007176-secondhand-road-to-reaction","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}