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.
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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.
1.2. Economic Calculation
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.
2.3. The Essential Features of Bureaucratic Management
In public administration there is no connection between revenue and expenditure.
4.1. How Government Interference and the Impairment of the Profit Motive Drive Business Toward Bureaucratization
No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making profit.
5.2. Bureaucratic Complacency
It was a purposeful confusion on the part of the German metaphysicians of statolatry that they clothed all men in the government service with the gloriole of altruistic self-sacrifice.
6.2. The Fate of the Rising Generation within a Bureucratic Environment
The German youth movement was doomed, because it did not attack the seed of the evil: the trend toward socialization.
7.2. Economics Versus Planning and Totalitarianism
The main issues of present-day politics are purely economic and cannot be understood without a grasp of economic theory.
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.
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.
3.1. The Impractiability of Government All-round Control
The very idea of central planning by the state is self-contradictory.
4.4. Unlimited Dependence on the Discretion of Government Bureaus
In the bureaucratic environment the entrepreneur must resort to two means: diplomacy and bribery.
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.
1.3. Management Under the Profit System
The profit motive drives entrepreneurs to serve the consumers.
