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Un conseil qui trainait depuis trop longtemps dans ma pile à lire et qui n'aurait pas dû. Un très bon essai en défense de la liberté et mettant en garde contre les dangers du collectivisme et de la mutualisation, criant de vérité quand on regarde l'époque actuelle où l'on semble condamnés à reproduire les mêmes erreurs en boucle. Une très belle défense du libéralisme loin de la démonisation qu'on lui connaît actuellement et des maux dont on l'accuse, retournant au source de cette philosophie pour en démontrer l'importance vitale pour les années à venir.
"Ni les bonnes intentions ni l'efficacité de l'organisation ne peuvent conserver l'honnêteté d'un système dans lequel la liberté personnelle et la responsabilité individuelle sont détruites."
"Ni les bonnes intentions ni l'efficacité de l'organisation ne peuvent conserver l'honnêteté d'un système dans lequel la liberté personnelle et la responsabilité individuelle sont détruites."
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
I'm sorry to say that this book defeated me. I did not finish it. Any lessons I want to learn from it will have to come from the people who did read it. :(
Frankly, it's crap. A hackneyed polemic- and almost managed to argue me out of stances I agreed with the author on before reading it. He's deliberately obtuse in arguments in support of his beliefs and offers little more than slippery slope nonsense for his opponents. Whether it be saying that he supports some limited planning- but never defining this good, acceptable level, or what areas of the economy it would work for- or claiming that belief in a planned economy is a straight road to Nazi style fascism, his writing reads like a slightly more eloquent version of the moronic nonsense one hears regularly from Fox 'News'. In case anyone missed it, I'll put the in caps- THE ONLY REASON TO READ THIS IDIOTIC CRAP IS BECAUSE A BUNCH OF PEOPLE THOUGHT IT WAS BRILLIANT- MEANING IT INFLUENCED THEIR MEDIOCRE THOUGHTS, AND THEREFORE POLICY AND NATIONS.
Wow. This was one of the greatest books I've ever read. And in the midst of bailout after bailout, this was a good time to read it. The fundamental argument that sacrificing economic liberty ultimately leads to sacrifice of all liberty is a powerful one.
There’s nothing in this book that leads me to believe that Hayek would be opposed to Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, Obamacare, SNAP, FEMA, OSHA, the EPA, or stimulus spending. He goes so far as to speak approvingly of a guaranteed income.
The whole book is an argument against socialism, defined as “the abolition of private enterprise, of private ownership of the means of production, and the creation of a system of “planned economy” in which the entrepreneur working for profit is replaced by a central planning body.” That’s conventional wisdom today.
I don't see why he is a hero of conservatives.
The whole book is an argument against socialism, defined as “the abolition of private enterprise, of private ownership of the means of production, and the creation of a system of “planned economy” in which the entrepreneur working for profit is replaced by a central planning body.” That’s conventional wisdom today.
I don't see why he is a hero of conservatives.
Stopped after finishing Chapter 9. If I continue reading in the future, start at "Why the worst get on top"