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Bureaucracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Bureaucracy is a concept in sociology and political science referring to the way that the administrative execution and enforcement of legal rules is socially organized. This office organization is characterized by standardized procedure, formal division of responsibility, hierarchy, and impersonal relationships. ..." |
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Bureaucracy and the Civil Service in the United States, by Murray N. Rothbard, Journal of Libertarian Studies, 1995
Related Topics: John Adams, Founding Fathers, Government, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Johnson, Limited Government, John Marshall, Richard M. Nixon, Parkinson's Law, Pennsylvania, Political Parties, Spoils System, Martin Van Buren, Voting, George Washington
"Those bureaucrats who are shrewd analysts of human nature, then, and who understand the way rulers operate, will, if they see that the cherished policy of their President is in grave error, tend to keep their mouths shut, and let some other sucker be the messenger of bad news and get shot down." |
The Pretense of Regulatory Knowledge, by Sheldon Richman, 3 Oct 2008
Contrasts the free market vs. regulation and central planning
"Calling regulators bureaucrats is not just an insult; it's also a description. Bureaucrats are not in the profit-and-loss game, as entrepreneurs in a (truly) free market are. They don't gain financially from producing value, and they have no capital at risk. As we've learned from the Food and Drug Administration, they tend to be overcautious because if they might err, it's better to err on the side of not letting something happen." |
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by Ludwig von Mises, 1944 |
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