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Jason Vines said:
My suggestion to President Obama would be The Road to Serfdom by Austrian economist and Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek.
Originally published in 1944, The Road to Serfdom is a concise yet illuminating description of how socialism in the Kaiser's Reich and the Weimar Republic laid the groundwork for the ascendance of the Nazis. Unlike Jonah Goldberg in his ridiculous equivocation of liberals to fascists, Hayek doesn't claim that left-wingers are Nazis or that we will precisely mimic Nazis by following left-wing prescriptions. Rather, Hayek issues and supports a more measured warning: that increasing central control and collective responsibility has unintended consequences dangerous to liberty. As Obama contemplates trying to solve our problems by expanding government, The Road to Serfdom could give him valuable perspective on the wisdom of such an endeavor.
Originally published in 1944, The Road to Serfdom is a concise yet illuminating description of how socialism in the Kaiser's Reich and the Weimar Republic laid the groundwork for the ascendance of the Nazis. Unlike Jonah Goldberg in his ridiculous equivocation of liberals to fascists, Hayek doesn't claim that left-wingers are Nazis or that we will precisely mimic Nazis by following left-wing prescriptions. Rather, Hayek issues and supports a more measured warning: that increasing central control and collective responsibility has unintended consequences dangerous to liberty. As Obama contemplates trying to solve our problems by expanding government, The Road to Serfdom could give him valuable perspective on the wisdom of such an endeavor.
