In the last years of World War II, Friedrich Hayek wrote The Road to Serfdom. He warned the allies that policy proposals which were being canvassed for the post-war world ran the risk of destroying the very freedom for which they were fighting. On the basis of 'as in war, so in peace', economists and others were arguing that the government should plan all economic activity. Such planning, Hayek argued, would be incompatible with liberty, and had been at the very heart of the movements that had established both communism and Nazism.
On its publication in 1944, the book caused a sensation. Neither its British nor its American publisher could keep up with demand, owing to wartime paper rationing. Then, in 1945, Reader's Digest published The Road to Serfdom as the condensed book in its April edition. For the first and still the only time, the condensed book was placed at the front of the magazine instead of the back. Hayek found himself a celebrity, addressing a mass market.
The condensed edition was republished for the first time by the IEA in 1999 and has been reissued to meet the continuing demand for its enduringly relevant and accessible message.

《复旦博学MPA系列•公共经济学》共分十章，系统、全面阐述了公共经济学的基本概念与原理，包括资源配置与政府职能、公共产品与公共选择理论、国家预算、公共支出与公共收入的理论与实践、收入分配与社会保障、公共经济与国民经济调节以及地方公共经济等内容。全书从经济学的角度解释、分析了市场经济体制下，政府应具有的职能与作用。
《复旦博学MPA系列•公共经济学》第二版对第一版中不少概念和原理的阐述进行了进一步的修正和完善，并充分吸收了近年来学术界在公共经济学领域的一些最新成果。