2.2. Bureaucracy Within a Democracy

Tags: Interventionism, Big Government

05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

There has always been bureaucracy in America. What characterizes our time is the expansion of the sphere of government interference with business and with many other items of the citizenry's affairs. And this results in a substitution of bureaucratic management for profit management.

From Chapter II: "Bureaucratic Management". Narrated by Millian Quinteros.

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