![]() ![]() Indeed, Hayek’s arguments in The Road to Serfdom (1944) and Orwell’s mid-late 1940s writings-e.g., Animal Farm ( 1945) and Nineteen Eighty- Four ( 1949a)-are usually viewed as having provided very similar assessments of the sundry ‘perversions to which a centralized economy is liable.’ And the similarities between aspects of Hayek’s 1944 analysis of planning and Orwell’s scathing 1949 analysis of Ingsoc (Newspeak for English Socialism) were the topic of much discussion when the Mont Pèlerin Society met in England in early September 1984 for a fortieth anniversary celebration of the publication of The Road to Serfdom. ![]() Hayek and Orwell are justifiably famous for their mid-late 1940s analyses of the inherent logic of totalitarianism. ![]()
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