Status Updates From O Caminho da Servidão

He should be awarded for his sensational writing style: “But this only would heighten the tragedy if it should prove that what was promised to us as the Road to Freedom was in fact the High Road to Servitude.”

Note 5/n:
ignores this. I, of course, agree with this - I do not want to live in anarchy. Would I even dare to leave my house under anarchy, where organized crime would likely run wild? And what would happen to money, given that fiat money's value stems purely from the legal tender of the state?

I still don't know whether Mises shared Rothbard's anarchy. I have not directly read Mises yet.

Note 4/n:
fully grasp. Attempts of planning at the macro level may even stymie many economic agents in their micro-level planning.

What gives me more food for thought is Hayek's clear awareness of the problem of externalities and a role for the state in upholding the legal system and faith in our public institutions. He does NOT want the state to do nothing - the modern caricature of Hayek by the left usually ...

Note 3/n:
and macroeconomically conservative', ii) stressed the aggregation problem once more - the problem that trips up many who want the state to be their utopia on earth. What I mean is that planning is of course the most rational choice at the MICRO level - the individual or the household - but it is a fatal conceit that planning can be achieved at the macro level: a complex organism that no one mind can ...

Note 2/n:
demand planning to encompass all direction of the economic modes of production, to distribute income and wealth to conform to an arbitrary standard of justice, that a (classical) liberal can have no choice but to issue the warning of the road to serfdom.

I have yet to marshal my thoughts on this. In my reading of these passages, I have formed the vague view that Hayek: i) is 'microeconomically liberal ...

Note 1/n:
I have now reached the part in TRTS (in Chapter 3: 'Individualism and Collectivism') that my innocently eager 18-year-old self latched onto in my 2019 review: that Hayek shows himself to not be opposed to 'planning' per se. Indeed, anyone who is not a 'complete fatalist' will be a planner: an economist would be the last person to oppose this. It is the manner that socialists really overstep the line, to ...