Interventionism
2.2. Bureaucracy Within a Democracy
Government interference with American business and with citizens' affairs results in bureaucratic management, instead of profit management.
2.1. Bureaucracy Under Despotic Government
The first virtue of a government administrator is to abide by the codes and decrees. He becomes a bureaucrat.
Introduction to Bureaucracy
The introduction to Mises's 1944 Bureaucracy. Nobody doubts that bureaucracy is thoroughly bad and that it should not exist in a perfect world.
4.4. Unlimited Dependence on the Discretion of Government Bureaus
4.2. Interference with the Height of Profit
The virtue of the profit system is that it puts on improvements a premium high enough to act as an incentive to take high risks.
5.4. The Bureaucratization of the Mind
4.3. Interference with the Choice of Personnel
6.5. The Vanishing of the Critical Sense
The capitalist variety of competition is to outdo other people on the market through offering better and cheaper goods. The bureaucratic variety consists in intrigues at the "courts" of those in power.