Bureaucracy
By Ludwig von Mises
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Description
Mises explains that the core choice we face is between rational economic organization by market prices and the arbitrary dictates of government bureaucrats. There is no third way. This audio book is made available through the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger. Narrated by Millian Quinteros.
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Preface to Bureaucracy | The preface to Ludwig von Mises's 1944 Bureaucracy. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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1.1. The Operation of the Market Mechanism | The capitalists, the enterprisers, and the farmers are instrumental in the conduct of economic affairs, but the captain is the consumer. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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1.3. Management Under the Profit System | The profit motive drives entrepreneurs to serve the consumers. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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2.2. Bureaucracy Within a Democracy | Government interference with American business and with citizens' affairs results in bureaucratic management, instead of profit management. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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2.3. The Essential Features of Bureaucratic Management | In public administration there is no connection between revenue and expenditure. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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2.4. The Crux of Bureaucratic Management | A government bureau is not a profit-seeking enterprise. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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3.1. The Impractiability of Government All-round Control | The very idea of central planning by the state is self-contradictory. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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3.2. Public Enterprise within a Market Economy | As soon as an undertaking is no longer operated under the profit motive, other principles must be adopted for the conduct of its affairs. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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4.3. Interference with the Choice of Personnel | Government meddling with private enterprise paralyzes initiative and breeds bureaucratism. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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4.4. Unlimited Dependence on the Discretion of Government Bureaus | In the bureaucratic environment the entrepreneur must resort to two means: diplomacy and bribery. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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5.1. The Philosophy of Bureaucratism | The State is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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5.3. The Bureaucrat as a Voter | The bureaucrat is not only a government employee. He is his also own employer. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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5.4. The Bureaucratization of the Mind | It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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5.5. Who Should be the Master? | Profit motive or regimentation. There is no third possibility left. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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6.1. The German Youth Movement | Capitalism is a system under which everybody has the chance of acquiring wealth. All roads are open to the smart youngster. But not under the rising tide of bureaucratization. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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6.3. Authoritarian Guardianship and Progress | In social life, rigidity amounts to petrification and death. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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7.1. Past Failures | Bureaucratization is only a particular feature of socialization. The main matter is: Capitalism or Socialism? | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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7.3. The Plain Citizen Versus the Professional Propaganist of Bureaucratization | The conflict between capitalism and totalitarianism—on the outcome of which the fate of civilization depends—is a war of ideas. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conclusion to Bureaucracy | Common sense is needed to prevent man from falling prey to illusory fantasies and empty catchwords. | 5/1/1944 | Free | View in iTunes |
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