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The Road to Serfdom in Cartoons

Posted by Jonathan on June 19th, 2007 (All posts by Jonathan)

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Via the Ludwig von Mises Institute comes a quite good cartoon version of Hayek’s classic.

Here’s a sample image:

The Road to Serfdom

 
Check it out.
 
UPDATE: Helen Szamuely has posted a much more thoughtful and detailed post on this topic here.
 

 

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3 Responses to “The Road to Serfdom in Cartoons”

  1. Lex Says:
    June 19th, 2007 at 10:32 pm

    Good stuff. Pretty faithful to the original, though lacking nuance.

  2. Titus Flavius Says:
    June 19th, 2007 at 11:20 pm

    Here is the five minute film version (with Wagner!):

    http://one.revver.com/watch/10904/flv

  3. Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » Update on The Road to Serfdom in Cartoons Says:
    June 20th, 2007 at 7:21 pm

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