This summer, economist Thomas DiLorenzo will again be teaching his hit course, The Road to Serfdom: Despotism, Then and Now. With Professor DiLorenzo’s help you can come to a full appreciation of this powerful classic in all its richness and subtlety.
- Cost: $95
- Length: 5 weeks
- Dates: June 21, 2011 – July 25, 2011
DiLorenzo writes:
“The purpose of this course, The Road to Serfdom: Despotism Then and Now, is to educate students about these contemporary dangers and arm them with the intellectual ammunition that they will need to oppose them and champion freedom instead. The totalitarian socialists of the early 20th century understood that they could not succeed unless they first discredited the ideas of freedom. The only way to stop their intellectual descendants (“the totalitarians in our midst,” as Hayek would call them) is to counter their totalitarian ideas. Hayek was a hero of society for putting his career as a renowned economic theorist on hold (for most of the rest of his life, it turned out) to lay out one of the most articulate arguments for a free society ever made. We must revisit and strengthen these arguments if we are to choose capitalism and freedom over socialism and serfdom.”
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