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.
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1.3. Management Under the Profit System
The profit motive drives entrepreneurs to serve the consumers.
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.
5.3. The Bureaucrat as a Voter
The bureaucrat is not only a government employee. He is also his own employer.
6.3. Authoritarian Guardianship and Progress
In social life, rigidity amounts to petrification and death.
7.3. The Plain Citizen Versus the Professional Propaganist of Bureaucratization
The conflict between capitalism and totalitarianism—on the outcome of which the fate of civilization depends—is a war of ideas.
1.1. The Operation of the Market Mechanism
The capitalists, the enterprisers, and the farmers are instrumental in the conduct of economic affairs, but the captain is the consumer.
2.2. Bureaucracy Within a Democracy
Government interference with American business and with citizens' affairs results in bureaucratic management, instead of profit management.
3.2. Public Enterprise within a Market Economy
As soon as an undertaking is no longer operated under the profit motive, other principles must be adopted for the conduct of its affairs.
5.1. The Philosophy of Bureaucratism
The State is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals.
6.1. The German Youth Movement
Capitalism is a system under which everybody has the chance of acquiring wealth. All roads are open to the smart youngster. But not under the rising tide of
bureaucratization.
7.1. Past Failures
Bureaucratization is only a particular feature of socialization. The main matter is: Capitalism or Socialism?
1.4. Personnel Management Under an Unhampered Labor Market
The price of labor is a market phenomenon determined by the consumers' demands for goods and services.
2.5. Bureaucratic Personnel Management
A bureaucrat differs from a non-bureaucrat precisely because he is working in a field in which it is impossible to appraise the result of a man's effort in terms of money.
4.3. Interference with the Choice of Personnel
Government meddling with private enterprise paralyzes initiative and breeds bureaucratism.
5.4. The Bureaucratization of the Mind
It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
6.4. The Selection of the Dictator
The alternative to the democratic principle of selection through popular election is the seizure of power by ruthless adventurers.
Conclusion to Bureaucracy
Common sense is needed to prevent man from falling prey to illusory fantasies and empty catchwords.
