Dr Steve Davies is the Head of Education at the IEA where previously he was program officer at the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS).

Dr Kristian Niemietz is the Head of Political Economy and author of several books at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA).

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In The Road to Serfdom F. A. Hayek set out the danger posed to freedom by attempts to apply the principles of wartime economic and social planning to the problems of peacetime. Hayek argued that the ...

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