Definition of Bureaucracy

Definition: A bureaucracy is a form of organization in which officeholders have defined positions and (usually) titles. Formal rules specify the duties of the officeholders. Personalistic distinctions are usually discouraged by the rules.

Terms related to Bureaucracy:

• Ramsey Equilibrium
• Seignorage
• Privatization

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Books on Bureaucracy:

• Bureaucracy and Public Economics
• Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy
• Economics, Bureaucracy, and Race

Journal Articles on Bureaucracy:

• The peculiar economics of bureaucracy
• Public and private bureaucracies: a transaction cost economics perspectives
• Bureaucracy, economic regulation, and the incentive limits of the firm