serfdom

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Ms. Bellows is the author of “American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

Virtually all economic conservatives trace their origin story to the Austrian-born Friedrich Hayek's 1944 work, "The Road to Serfdom."

From Salon • Jul. 1, 2023

But just 15 years later, the same advocates became obsessed with Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom, advocating free-market capitalism to combat the rise of totalitarianism.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2022

Her great political inspiration, apart from her father, was the Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek's 1944 book, The Road to Serfdom, written in Cambridge during the war.

From The Guardian • Aug. 22, 2014

Do you think that they, with their Battles, Famine, Black Death and Serfdom, were less enlightened than we are, with our Wars, Blockade, Influenza and Conscription?

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White