Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy Audiobook

Big GovernmentInterventionism

02/12/2015Mises Media
Mises on the arbitrary dictates of government bureaucrats. Download the complete audio book here.
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Preface to Bureaucracy

Big GovernmentInterventionism

05/02/1944Mises Media
The preface to Ludwig von Mises's 1944 Bureaucracy .
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Introduction to Bureaucracy

Big GovernmentInterventionism

05/02/1944Mises Media
The introduction to Mises's 1944 Bureaucracy . Nobody doubts that bureaucracy is thoroughly bad and that it should not exist in a perfect world.
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1.1. The Operation of the Market Mechanism

Free MarketsProduction TheoryValue and Exchange

05/02/1944Mises Media
The capitalists, the enterprisers, and the farmers are instrumental in the conduct of economic affairs, but the captain is the consumer.
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1.2. Economic Calculation

Calculation and KnowledgeOther Schools of ThoughtPrices

05/02/1944Mises Media
The impracticability of all schemes of socialism and central planning is to be seen in the impossibility of any kind of economic calculation under these conditions.
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1.3. Management Under the Profit System

The EntrepreneurFree Markets

05/02/1944Mises Media
The profit motive drives entrepreneurs to serve the consumers.
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1.4. Personnel Management Under an Unhampered Labor Market

Free MarketsPricesProduction Theory

05/02/1944Mises Media
The price of labor is a market phenomenon determined by the consumers' demands for goods and services.
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2.1. Bureaucracy Under Despotic Government

Big GovernmentInterventionism

05/02/1944Mises Media
The first virtue of a government administrator is to abide by the codes and decrees. He becomes a bureaucrat.
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2.2. Bureaucracy Within a Democracy

Big GovernmentInterventionism

05/02/1944Mises Media
Government interference with American business and with citizens' affairs results in bureaucratic management, instead of profit management.
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2.3. The Essential Features of Bureaucratic Management

Big GovernmentInterventionism

05/02/1944Mises Media
In public administration there is no connection between revenue and expenditure.
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