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Note n/n:
whereas the 2 intellectual forebears of National Socialism, Thomas Carlyle and Houston Stewart Chamberlain, were a Scot and an Englishman. (Hayek's point is that it is nonsense to bifurcate that Brits: classical liberals; Germans: socialists)

When I read 'On liberty', I could not sense that Mill drew such influence from Goethe and Humboldt: but I have faith in Hayek's knowledge as a Mill scholar.

Note 7/n:
returning to Malaysia. I just wonder if this benefit of migration has diminished in today's globalized and technologically connected world.

5) An interesting point by Hayek: Mill's 'On liberty' drew significant inspiration from 2 Germans - Goethe and Wilhelm von Humboldt (which, coincidentally, is the person that I told Joyce about, who originated the modern research-teaching university model!) - ...

Note 6/n:
no point in writing this. They can be prevented if people realise in time where their efforts may lead.'

4) Some interesting observations by Hayek on how living in different countries allows one to live through the same events/ histories twice, and thus anticipate the consequences of such developments accordingly. I definitely agree with Hayek on this point, having lived in Britain for years before ...

Note 5/n:
never finished.

3) I have increasingly come to puzzle over why the left strawmans Hayek by claiming that he said that a society that dabbles with interventionism WILL result in poverty and serfdom: Caldwell taught me that the TRTS was Hayek's WARNING, not prediction - and he makes this clear right in the introduction. 'Nor am I arguing that these developments are inevitable. If they were, there would be...

Note 4/n:
central planning.

2) The essay by Caldwell that I read earlier, 'Introduction to TRTS', has provided valuable context. Hayek mentions in the preface that he feels compelled to write TRTS and it forced him to put aside academic work that he feels more qualified for and attaches more importance to in the long run: I know now that that work was 'The abuse and decline of reason' project, which he ultimately...

Note 3/n:
I thought it was a ridiculous opinion at the time: it is precisely the fact that Hayek was not a capitalist himself that made his philosophy much more credible, because he had no horse in the race. And Hayek mentions this point right in the preface: his beliefs are not determined by his personal interests. In fact, as an economist, he would occupy a much more important position in a society that embraced...

Note 2/n:
in my Routledge edition. I'm sure that Caldwell would add a lot of context for my long-awaited 2nd reading. But that is fine - TRTS is, after all, a popular work.

Some thoughts thus far:
1) I had read a comment to one of the posts on the Twitter account 'Insane Economist Quotes' that responded to the fact that Hayek never had substantial personal wealth. The comment was 'Never trust a broke economist' ...

Note 1/n:
At long last, I have finally started rereading 'The road to serfdom'. In very recent times, I have grown fond of annotated editions (by scholars) of these classic works (which I am in good fortune because the University of Chicago's 'Collected Works of F.A. Hayek' is available to me at an affordable price, and it's edited by none other than Caldwell), so I am slightly let down by the lack of annotation ...