2.1. Bureaucracy Under Despotic Government
The first virtue of a government administrator is to abide by the codes and decrees. He becomes a bureaucrat.
Interventionism
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Introduction to Bureaucracy
The introduction to Mises's 1944 Bureaucracy. Nobody doubts that bureaucracy is thoroughly bad and that it should not exist in a perfect world.
5.4. The Bureaucratization of the Mind
It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
4.3. Interference with the Choice of Personnel
Government meddling with private enterprise paralyzes initiative and breeds bureaucratism.
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.
4.4. Unlimited Dependence on the Discretion of Government Bureaus
In the bureaucratic environment the entrepreneur must resort to two means: diplomacy and bribery.
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.
A Critique of Interventionism
Between capitalism and socialism, is there a stable middle way? In these six essays from the 1920s, translated by Hans F.
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