How Bureaucracies Work

How Bureaucracies Work
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I’ve been curious about the subject of bureaucracy for as long as I can remember. It’s obvious that they run governments at all levels, and define our experience with governments. That’s unavoidable when the government is tasked with so much. And those bureaucracies build more of the same in all institutions managed by governments.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]