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Matt Collins
06-09-2010, 12:22 PM
This is what I sent out to my local Glenn Beck Meetup




Yesterday Glenn Beck had a friend of mine, Dr. Tom Woods, on his TV show. Glenn also mentioned Hayek's book "Road To Serfdom" which is now a best seller on Amazon thanks to Glenn. You should definitely pick it up if you have not as an introduction to limited government Austrian economics.


You can watch the video here:
YouTube - Glenn Beck-06/08/10-A (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avnmw4gJwew&feature=player_embedded)


The book, Road To Serfdom, can be purchased here:
http://mises.org/store/Road-to-Serfdom-The-P252.aspx


You can read a condensed version for free here:
http://workforall.net/assets/road-to-serfdom.pdf



Here are two blogs on this:
http://reason.com/blog/2010/06/09/hayek-is-1
http://stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2010/06/09/the-power-of-glenn-beck/


Dr. Tom Woods has a website with his books:
http://www.thomasewoods.com/

And you can read more about Dr. Woods here:
http://mises.org/fellow.aspx?Id=23
AuH20
06-09-2010, 12:26 PM
Glenn was talking about the Road to Serfdom this morning. He mentioned that this book at one time was extremely hard to obtain in the U.S., in large part thanks to it's explosive content. Is that true?
Sentient Void
06-09-2010, 12:36 PM
Glenn was talking about the Road to Serfdom this morning. He mentioned that this book at one time was extremely hard to obtain in the U.S., in large part thanks to it's explosive content. Is that true?

I don't know anything about that, but I do know it was banned in the Soviet Union and contributed significantly to it's political / economical collapse.
vonMises
06-09-2010, 12:47 PM
I don't know anything about that, but I do know it was banned in the Soviet Union and contributed significantly to it's political / economical collapse.

I'm not too sure how you can conclude this. I'd actually credit a man who's often been hated here, Brezinski (sp?), as probably more responsible for making the Soviet Union collapse by making them invade Afghanistan (as it later bankrupted them). Then again I find him responsible for the rise in Islamic terrorism. But he rather have America deal with Islamic terrorism than a militarily strong but declining Soviet Union.

Yes, he does actually credit himself (partly anyway) with ending the Cold War.