2.3. The Essential Features of Bureaucratic Management

Tags: Interventionism, Big Government

05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

In public administration there is no connection between revenue and expenditure. The public services are spending money only; the insignificant income derived from special sources is more or less accidental.

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

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