HAYEK (Friedrich August von).

Individualism and the Economic Order.

SIGNED BY HAYEK

First UK edition. 8vo. vii, 272 pp. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (light spotting to endpapers and edges, contents otherwise generally clean; cloth somewhat marked with three ring stains to front board; jacket with heavy staining to spine panel and upper portion of rear panel, light wear to extremities with minor chipping to tips of spine panel, short closed tear to head of front joint). London, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1949.

£5,000.00

Signed by the author in black ink to the front free endpaper, from the library of the British businessman and libertarian think-tank founder Sir Antony George Anson Fisher (1915-1988), with his ownership inscription dated ‘March 1949’ in blue ink to the front free endpaper.

Originally published in the US in the previous year, Individualism and the Economic Order is a collection of twelve essays that continue and build upon Hayek’s argument set forth in The Road to Serfdom that the abandonment of individualism and classical liberalism through centralised, government control of economic decision-making necessarily results in tyranny and the loss of freedom.

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