ABSTRACT
This chapter takes the story forward to 1944-1945, the end of the Hitler era. It will be mostly comparative rather than critical trying to identify similarities and differences. Their views on the key issue of freedom and equality will be emphasized along with the meta-theory underpinning it. I begin by comparing the structure of the two books. Next, I summarize several key theses, arguments and problems in Popper’s The Open Society and its Enemies. I then summarize the major arguments in Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom. I briefly discuss the one major ostensible difference between the two books. Popper seems more egalitarian and therefore more sympathetic to socialism, while Hayek is very antiegalitarian by contrast. I finish by commenting on Bruce Caldwell’s discussions of four major criticisms of Hayek’s book and his interesting test for the validity of such critiques.
