Public Enemies: Government Bureaucrats as Societal Parasites – The Washington Standard

Public Enemies: Government Bureaucrats as Societal Parasites – The Washington Standard

Economists have been studying and writing about government bureaucracy for quite a long time. Ludwig von Mises became the first “modern” economist to write a book on the subject with his 1944 Bureaucracy. The public choice school of economics, founded by James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock, among others, has produced a huge literature on the economics of bureaucracy, much of which is complementary to Mises’s pathbreaking work. This literature has …