"I have noted above that Hayek is incredibly skimpy about the nature and character of this "road to serfdom" which all modern democracies are on, … Thus we may infer that Alexander Hamilton, who introduced our protective tariff system, was our first socialist starting us down the road to serfdom. Hayek, I hasten to add, does not cite Hamilton, but he does cite Bismarck's adoption of protectionism in 1879 as an early milepost down the road to Nazism. … This kind of writing is not scholarship. It is seeing hobgoblins under every bed."
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Alvin Hansen, "Hayek's "Road to Serfdom"", The New Republic, January 1, 1945.
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