# Are We Still on the Road to Serfdom? **URL:** **By** Eamonn Butler **Published:** July 12, 1984 --- In this lecture from 1984, Eamonn Butler talks about Friedrich Hayek's 1944 classic, _The Road to Serfdom_. Eamonn Butler is an author on economic and social issues and the director and co-founder of the Adam Smith Institute. In this lecture from 1984, Butler talks about Friedrich Hayek's 1944 classic, _The Road to Serfdom_. He reviews the path to a totalitarian society that Hayek sketches in the short book, and comes to the conclusion that for the most part the Western world is done with heavy-handed authoritarian experimentation.