Road to Serfdom The servants of our own machinery? F. A. Hayek's caldwell's Edition of Hayek's

As Bruce Caldwell (2007, p. 1) notes, Hayek's classic text had a “decidedly inauspicious” beginning. In spring 1933, Hayek wrote a memorandum ( Nazi socialism ) to Sir William Beveridge – then Director of the London School of Economics – arguing that National Socialism represented the “culmination” ( Hayek, [1933] 2007, p. 245 ) of earlier pro-socialist trends. As Hayek puts it, National Socialism was[The] ultimate and necessary outcome of a process of development in which the other nations have been for a long time steadily following Germany…The gradual extension of the field of state activity, the increase in restrictions on international movements of both men and goods, sympathy with central economic planning and the widespread playing with dictatorship ideas, all tend in this direction. ( Hayek, [1933] 2007, p. 248, italics added )