II

BUREAUCRATIC MANAGEMENT

1.  BUREAUCRACY UNDER DESPOTIC GOVERNMENT

THE chieftain of a small primitive tribe is as a rule in a position to concentrate in his hands all legislative, administrative, and judiciary power. His will is the law. He is both executive and judge.

III

BUREAUCRATIC MANAGEMENT OF PUBLICLY OWNED ENTERPRISES

1.  THE IMPRACTICABILITY OF GOVERNMENT ALL-ROUND CONTROL

IV

BUREAUCRATIC MANAGEMENT OF PRIVATE ENTERPRISES

1.  HOW GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE AND THE IMPAIRMENT OF THE PROFIT MOTIVE DRIVE BUSINESS TOWARD BUREAUCRATIZATION

V

THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF BUREAUCRATIZATION

1.   THE PHILOSOPHY OF BUREAUCRATISM

THE antagonism which the people had to encounter in earlier struggles for freedom was simple and could be understood by everybody. There were on the one side the tyrants and their supporters; there were on the other side the advocates of popular government. The political conflicts were struggles of various groups for supremacy. The question was: Who should rule? We or they? The few or the many? The despot or the aristocracy or the people?

VI

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF BUREAUCRATIZATION

1.  THE GERMAN YOUTH MOVEMENT

VII

IS THERE ANY REMEDY AVAILABLE?

1.  PAST FAILURES

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CONCLUSION

THE analysis of the technical characteristics of bureaucratic management and of its opposite, profit management, provides a clue for a fair and unbiased valuation of both systems of doing things under the division of labor.

by

LUDWIG VON MISES

THE LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE

AUBURN, ALABAMA

2008