Reprint of 1944 edition. Bureaucracy has a legitimate role to play in governmental affairs. Many writers class large corporations with governments as bureaucracies. This is a fundamental error. A business can be divided into numerous sections, each evaluated through the use of a balance sheet.
Democracy is much inferior to consumer sovereignty as a means of exerting popular control.
It is, nevertheless, the most desirable form of government. Yale University Press, 1944. Librairie de M dicis, 1946. La Burocracia . Paperback reprint of 1944 edition, with a new preface.