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Is there a place online that I can read the full-version of F.A. Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom"?

Is there a place online that I can read the full-version of F.A. Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom"?

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Throatpoker Posted: Mon, Dec 10 2007 11:25 AM

 Be it in .pdf or html formats, I just wanna read it.

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Mark B. replied on Mon, Dec 10 2007 12:00 PM

Check your local library.  Our country library system has three copies. :) 

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ricarpe replied on Tue, Dec 11 2007 11:12 PM

I haven't seen any .pdf versions of it, but I got mine rather cheaply through Barnes & Noble.

As for .pdf books, I just downloaded two tomes of Austrian thought: Human Action and Man, Economy and State with Power and Markets.  Normally, I would have bought them, but, as I'm still a broke university student (even if I am about to graduate), I'll take the free version for now and buy a printed copy later when I am of better means to do so.

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Anonymous Coward replied on Wed, Dec 12 2007 2:11 AM

 I'm pretty good at finding stuff on this here interweb and the only thing I could find was the cartoon version that's free.

Amazon had it for $9 or something like that and my sister gave me a gift card last Christmas... 

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Inquisitor replied on Wed, Dec 12 2007 10:16 AM

 A bit off topic, but I am happy as I finally ordered Man, Economy and State with Power and the Market today. It'll be a good few weeks worth of reading (and re-reading...)

 

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Anonymous Coward replied on Fri, Dec 14 2007 5:15 PM

Inquisitor:
A bit off topic, but I am happy as I finally ordered Man, Economy and State with Power and the Market today. It'll be a good few weeks worth of reading (and re-reading...)
 

I plan to go through it with the study guide as soon as I get some downtime.

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Throatpoker replied on Fri, Dec 14 2007 9:27 PM
So...if it's not available anywhere else, why doesn't the Mises Institute offer it on this site?
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John Stabbyman replied on Fri, Dec 14 2007 11:50 PM
copyright issues
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Bogdan replied on Sat, Dec 15 2007 8:21 AM

Throatpoker:

 Be it in .pdf or html formats, I just wanna read it.

The only online version available is the IEA's Reader's Digest condensed version which you can acces here in pdf. 

 

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