Bureaucracy

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Ludwig von Mises is one of the great thinkers of liberalism in the 20th century. In his work written in 1944 during his exile in America, he warns of the gradual loss of freedom in the modern interventionist welfare state. He argues that while people may overwhelmingly support the preservation and expansion of state social services, they simultaneously complain about the constant and dramatic increase in bureaucracy and regulation, which leads to greater economic and social burdens. Mises contends that these two phenomena are interconnected; those who advocate for a redistributive state must not lament the bureaucracy that inevitably arises from it. The increasing paternalism of the citizen within the welfare state is seen as unavoidable. Through his analysis, Mises provides a critical examination of the implications of bureaucratic expansion on individual freedoms and the functioning of society.