4.1. How Government Interference and the Impairment of the Profit Motive Drive Business Toward Bureaucratization

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05/02/1944 Ludwig von Mises

No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making profit.

From Chapter IV: “Bureaucratic Management of Private Enterprises”. Narrated by Millian Quinteros.

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