• "Well written, well researched, and the thesis put forth is well argued.... Woods has opened up an area of historical analysis that should invite further study."
    -Journal of American History

  • "During these times that challenge our freedoms there is no one more qualified to make U.S. history relevant to the fight against big government than Thomas Woods."
    -Barry Goldwater Jr.
    Former Member of Congress

  • "I strongly recommend Woods's work."
    -The Honorable Ron Paul,
    U.S. House of Representatives

  • "Written with great clarity and fluency, making the complex philosophical and theological concepts approachable."
    -Journal of American Studies

  • "A must-read."
    -Barron's

  • "An excellent reading source for anyone interested in financial markets, and much more so for anyone interested in learning about capitalism without all the misinterpretations being thrown about in the financial media."
    -Asia Times

  • "Provocative, well-written, and deserves to be read."
    -Catholic Historical Review

  • "An engaging and important contribution to scholarship on the history of American Catholicism."
    -Journal of the Historical Society

  • "Woods and [co-author Kevin] Gutzman appeal to both left and right in this constitutionalist jeremiad…. The authors' exegeses of the Constitution and court decisions, heavy on original intent arguments, are lucid and telling."
    -Publishers Weekly

  • "A marvelous read. Every chapter taught me something new and unexpected."
    -Tom Bethell, senior editor,
    The American Spectator

  • "The hottest book today is Meltdown, by my friend Tom Woods."
    -Judge Andrew Napolitano, senior judicial analyst,
    FOX News Channel

  • "Should be required reading."
    -Economic Affairs (London)

  • "Woods, one of the best classical liberal [libertarian] scholars of his generation, has once more placed us in his debt with this lucid and tightly argued book."
    -David Gordon, The Mises Review

  • "Tom Woods is one of my dearest allies in the struggle against wrong-headed and dangerous economic policy."
    -Peter Schiff

Back on the Road to Serfdom

Tom Woods Serfdom

Back on the Road to Serfdom: The Resurgence of Statism
edited by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

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From the back cover:
In 1944 economist F.A. Hayek published his groundbreaking warning about the dangers
of statism, The Road to Serfdom.
Now, with the statist menace reemerging in force, bestselling author Thomas E.
Woods Jr. and ten other writers sound the alarm for a new generation. This brilliantly
argued book reveals the insidious threats to prosperity, opportunity, individual liberty,
and civil society.

Read my introduction.

Essays include:
Brian Domitrovic, “Economic Policy and the Road to Serfdom: The Watershed of 1913”
Carey Roberts, “Hamiltonianism: The Origins of the Modern State”
Per Bylund, “The Modern Welfare State: Leading the Way on the Road to Serfdom”
Antony P. Mueller, “The Origins of the Crisis”
Mark Brandly, “The Dangers of Protectionism”
Dane Stangler, “Entrepreneurship and Government”
Timothy P. Carney, “The Cultural Costs of Corporatism: How Government-Business
Collusion Denigrates the Entrepreneur and Rewards the Sycophant”
John Larrivee, “It’s Not the Markets, It’s the Morals: How Excessively Blaming Markets
Undermines Civil Society”
Gerard Casey, “Religion, the Market, and the State”
Paul A. Cantor, “The Road to Cultural Serfdom: America’s First Television Czar”

  • R. Casimir

    “Back on” seems to imply that we were off the Road to Serfdom at some point, and now we’re back on it. When was that exactly, that we got off the road? It seems like we’ve been “progressing” down the road since the Progressive era, without so much as a sidetrip to enjoy the local sights. It’s been as straight a shot as taking the I-5 from LA to Sacramento. As ugly as the road from purgatory to hell.

    We’re just about there. Lately I’ve been thinking we should be erecting stone monuments to our passing. This book serves in that role nicely.

  • https://openid.org/kjmonkey Joseph

    Perhaps the phrase “Back on” implies that the political promises have turned out to be a farce and that we veered off the path when we sighted the changing of the executive/legislative/judicial guard only to realize we’ve been had by a desert mirage.