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Philosophical Haiku

Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992)

by Terence Green

Reason’s poverty,
Man’s desire to control –
This road walks the serf.

Hayek’s reputation as an economist and political philosopher has suffered on account of his popular but vitriolic and unbalanced rant against state power, The Road to Serfdom (1944). In it he argued that even mild, well-intentioned attempts at central planning will inevitably slide towards authoritarianism. The book was appropriated by the worst zealots of neoliberalism.

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