Author: LUDWIG VON MISES
Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc.
Keywords: von, mises, ludwig, works, lib, bureaucracy
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2007-02-01
ISBN-10: 0865976635
ISBN-13: 9780865976634

Written long before Public Choice economists began to take up the subject, Mises describes bureaucracies as both self-interested and economically irrational (thereby improving on the modern Public Choice critique). There is no reinventing government: if we are to have government do things for us, bureaucracies, which cannot behave efficiently, will have to do the work. This small book has grown in stature as Western economies have become more and more bureaucratized.From the publisher Mises said it right here. In these pages we find the crushing critique of nearly all modern reform movements

Author: Cory Doctorow
Publisher: Tor Books
Keywords: tribe, standard, eastern
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-03-01
ISBN-10: 0765307596
ISBN-13: 9780765307590

A powerful and funny novel about time, tribalism, and a young man’s dismaying discoveries about his own life rt is a member of the Eastern Standard Tribe, a secret society bound together by a sleep schedule. Around the world, those who wake and sleep on East Coast time find common cause with one another, co-operating, conspiring to help each other out, coordinated by a loose network of encrypted instant messag-ing, secret protocols, and a love of Manhattan-style bagels. Or perhaps not. Art is, after all, in the nut-house. He was put there by a cabal of his friends and loved ones, fellow

Author: Margaret C. Harrell
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: army, wives, enlisted, junior, women, invisible
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2000
ISBN-10: 0833028804
ISBN-13: 9780833028808

Military manpower policy is often crafted by policymakers without an in-depth understanding of the life experiences and views of junior enlisted personnel. It is plausible to expect that some policymakers attribute the attitudes and experiences of these young soldiers to such features as youth or lack of an advanced education and may thus believe themselves able to empathize with this population group by recalling their own parallel life experiences. However, this approach oversimplifies the life experiences of these families and neglects the reality that most policymakers and professional man

Author: Llewellyn H. Rockwell
Publisher: Ludwig Von Mises Institute
Keywords: liberty, economics
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 1990-06
ISBN-10: 0945466080
ISBN-13: 9780945466086

This collection of short, entertaining articles exposes how government interference with the economy violates individual liberty, leads to inefficiencies, and rewards special interests. Contributors include Murray Rothbard, Walter Block, David Gordon, Robert Higgs, and Tom Bethell. The contents of this volume include: Introduction (Llewellyn H. Rockwell) I. Economic Truth vs. Political PowerOutlawing Jobs: The Minimum Wage, Once More (Murray N. Rothbard) The Scourge of Unionism (Llewellyn H. Rockwell) Keynesianism Redux (Murray N. Rothbard) The Keynesian Dream (Murray N. Rothbard) The

Authors:Murray N. Rothbard,  Thomas E. Woods Jr.,
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Keywords: right, american, betrayal
Number of Pages: 231
Published: 2007-08-31
ISBN-10: 1933550139
ISBN-13: 9781933550138

This remarkable piece of history will change the way you look at American politics. It shows that the corruption of American "conservatism" began long before George W. Bush ballooned the budget and asserted dictatorial rights over the country and the world. The American Right long ago slid into the abyss. Betrayal of the American Right is the full story, and the author is none other than Murray N. Rothbard, who witnessed it all first hand. He tells his own story and reveals that machinations behind the subversion of an anti-state movement into one that cheers statism of the worst sort. The boo

Author: R. J. May
Publisher: The Australian National University
Keywords: studies, state, society, pacific, guinea, papua, making, implementation, policy, new
Number of Pages: 399
Published: 2010-07-20
ISBN-10: 1921536683
ISBN-13: 9781921536687

There is a vast literature on the principles of public administration and good governance, and no shortage of theoreticians, practitioners and donors eager to push for public sector reform, especially in less-developed countries. Papua New Guinea has had its share of public sector reforms, frequently under the influence of multinational agencies and aid donors. Yet there seems to be a general consensus, both within and outside Papua New Guinea, that policy making and implementation have fallen short of expectations, that there has been a failure to achieve ’good governance’. This v