Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy is a political book, driven by author Ludwig von Mises’s concern with the spread of socialist ideals and the increasing bureaucratization of economic life. The book aims to demonstrate the negative aspects of bureaucracy, which is not the result of bad policies or corruption, as the greater some tends to think. Mises explains the core choice between rational economic organization by market prices, and the arbitrary dictates of government bureaucrats. The book extensively explains and does not condemn nor dismiss bureaucracy but rather frames its proper bounds within constitutional democratic governments.