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  • However many people complain about the "red tape," it would be sheer illusion to think ... continuous administrative work can be carried out in any field except by means of officials working in offices.... The choice is only that between bureaucracy and dillettantism.

    1922 Collected in Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich (eds) Economy and Society (1978), ch.3.
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