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Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

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07/23/1944 Ludwig von Mises

Omnipotent Government was published in 1944, when the battle against Nazism held the world’s attention. How had this terrible system gained power? Mises considers and rejects several explanations popular at the time he wrote, such as inherent...

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As We Go Marching

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06/15/1944 John T. Flynn

John T. Flynn’s classic work from 1944 on how wartime planning brought fascism to America. In some ways, this is the finest and most mature of all his works. It was written in wartime and his points were profoundly cutting. After all, the U.S...

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2.3. The Essential Features of Bureaucratic Management

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05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

In public administration there is no connection between revenue and expenditure.

2.2. Bureaucracy Within a Democracy

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05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

Government interference with American business and with citizens' affairs results in bureaucratic management, instead of profit management.

2.1. Bureaucracy Under Despotic Government

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05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

The first virtue of a government administrator is to abide by the codes and decrees. He becomes a bureaucrat.

Introduction to Bureaucracy

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05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

The introduction to Mises's 1944 Bureaucracy. Nobody doubts that bureaucracy is thoroughly bad and that it should not exist in a perfect world.

Preface to Bureaucracy

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05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

The preface to Ludwig von Mises's 1944 Bureaucracy.

3.1. The Impractiability of Government All-round Control

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05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

The very idea of central planning by the state is self-contradictory.

7.1. Past Failures

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05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

Bureaucratization is only a particular feature of socialization. The main matter is: Capitalism or Socialism?

2.4. The Crux of Bureaucratic Management

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05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

A government bureau is not a profit-seeking enterprise.

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