The Countless Failures of Big Bureaucracy

Ludwig von Mises' Yale University Press classic Bureaucracy explains in a relatively few pages the difference between public and private-sector bureaucratic management.

Neither the executive, legislative, nor judicial branches can see into the bureaucracy any better than career leaders.

At the same time, U.S. bureaucracy itself operates under dual civil service and union personnel shields where almost no one is fired or disciplined.

The Air Force bureaucracy has had critical acquisitions challenges, too.

Since military centralized procurement began in the 1960s, today it takes more than a decade to develop new programs, which are often outdated when they are rolled out, and with significant items deemed total failures.

Domestic bureaucracy failure is better known but shocking, too.

One attempt to track the U.S. Code found 5,199 national crimes, many with serious penalties for trivial behavior, when historically most criminal law has been at the state level where smaller size makes bureaucracy more manageable.

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