First UK edition. 8vo. vii, 272, pp. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (small bookseller’s label to front pastedown, just a hint of faint spotting to edges of text block, otherwise internally clean and unmarked; some trivial shelf wear to extremities of jacket, otherwise a very fine, notably bright copy). London, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1949.
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.
