The Road To Serfdom video by F.A. Hayek

[Sam Gunn (since nobody got Admiral Naismith)]

http://www.mises.org/MultiMedia/video/Serfdom.wmv
Very simple, persuasive, and historically accurate.  Share it with your friends or embed it on your websites.

Great argument against all forms of central planning and their slippery slopes.

[mikehz]

There is a popular mis-belief that the free market is an unplanned economy. This is untrue. In fact, a free economy is MORE planned than is one directed from a central planner. This is because economies are very complex things, requiring millions of decisions at every level every single day, most of which must be made immediately to do any good. Any central planning office must have a very large staff to get this done. However, even with a huge staff, most of the decisions will be slow and cumbersome.

The market gets around this by using a neat trick: it co-opts everyone as a planner. Each person does their own economic planning. Some make poor decision, and when they do, they suffer. But for the most part, people make what appears the right decision, and do so in time for that decision to actually make sense. The result is that, overall, the economy thrives.

[Taors]

I bought the book from Amazon about 3 days ago. It'll be a while before I get to it though.

[Porcupine_in_MA]

Great movie. Loved the music and the old forties feel in it.

[OUND]

Why the hell did that open three windows for it in VLC? Besides that, it's good.

[Taors]

And now...I'm on TRTS. Looks good.

[cerpntaxt]

good book too

[MasterShake]

The only thing I hate about the road to serfdom is that I lost my copy about 2 years ago, and haven't gotten a replacement.

[Sam Gunn (since nobody got Admiral Naismith)]

The only thing I hate about the road to serfdom is that I lost my copy about 2 years ago, and haven't gotten a replacement.

I couldn't believe it when I found out they actually have a copy of it in my public college library.  Now when I go to the library to study, it isn't for physics.

[MasterShake]

You can find the Reader's Digest condensed version on the web.

I don't like libraries, as I tend to like to mark up my books.

At this point I dunno if I shoould get a new copy of RtS, or a copy of Free to Choose

[Sam Gunn (since nobody got Admiral Naismith)]

You can find the Reader's Digest condensed version on the web.

I don't like libraries, as I tend to like to mark up my books.

At this point I dunno if I shoould get a new copy of RtS, or a copy of Free to Choose

Digest versions are never as good though.  If you've never read Free to Choose, you should get a copy of that instead of RtS.

[Taors]

You can find the Reader's Digest condensed version on the web.

I don't like libraries, as I tend to like to mark up my books.

At this point I dunno if I shoould get a new copy of RtS, or a copy of Free to Choose

Digest versions are never as good though.  If you've never read Free to Choose, you should get a copy of that instead of RtS.

I've got both. Free to Choose didn't really have a lot of info that you couldn't otherwise find on the internet.