“I don’t think the basic human desire to control social phenomena, control society through social policy, is ever going to dissipate. And in fact, I think it is a noble cause. I think that Hayek, though, points out certain problems that people encounter when they try to plan a society. So I think that message is one that we would forget only at our peril. I’ll just put it that way.”
That’s just one of the comments made by Professor Bruce Caldwell to Carolina Journal Radio’s Mitch Kokai in a recent interview. I encourage you to take a few moments to read more of Caldwell’s comments in today’s Carolina Journal Friday interview, found here.
Caldwell served as professor of economics at UNC-Greensboro when he edited what’s billed as the definitive edition of Friedrich von Hayek’s classic 1944 book, The Road to Serfdom. The interview reminds us why Hayek’s book is, indeed, a classic and it may prod you to pick it up again, or for the first time.
