Bureaucracy - Couverture souple

Mises, Ludwig Von

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0865976643 ISBN 13 : 9780865976641

Editeur : Liberty Fund Inc, 2007

Synopsis

Originally published by Yale University Press in 1944, 'Bureaucracy' is a classic fundamental examination of the nature of bureaucracies and free markets in juxtaposition to various political systems. 'Bureaucracy' contrasts the two forms of economic management -- that of a free market economy and that of a bureaucracy. In the market economy entrepreneurs are driven to serve consumers by their desire to earn profits and to avoid losses. In a bureaucracy, the managers must comply with orders issued by the legislative body under which they operate; they may not spend without authorisation and they may not deviate from the path prescribed by law. Writing in an age of exuberant socialism, Ludwig von Mises here lucidly demonstrates how the efficiencies of private ownership and control of public good production ultimately trump the guesswork of publicly administered 'planning' through codes and 'officialdom'. Although Mises aptly critiques bureaucracy and expounds thoroughly upon the immense power of law-like codes of commissions and administrations, he does not condemn nor dismiss bureaucracy but rather frames its proper bounds within constitutional democratic governments.

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À propos des auteurs

Ludwig von Mises (18811973) was the leading spokesman of the Austrian School of economics throughout most of the twentieth century.

Bettina Bien Greaves is a former resident scholar and trustee of the Foundation for Economic Education and was a senior staff member at FEE from 1951 to 1999.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liberty Fund Inc
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0865976643
• ISBN 13: 9780865976641
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 105
• Éditeur: Greaves Bettina Bien
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