`` The Road to Serfdom '' was to be the popular edition of the second volume of Hayek 's treatise entitled `` The Abuse and Decline of Reason '' , and the title was inspired by the writings of the 19th century French classical liberal thinker Alexis de Tocqueville on the `` road to servitude '' .
`` The Road to Serfdom '' was to be a popular edition of the second volume of Hayek 's `` The Abuse and Decline of Reason '' . The title was inspired by the writings of the 19th century French classical liberal Alexis de Tocqueville on the `` road to servitude '' .