DIEing in Nice Red Tape by Francis Turner

DIEing in Nice Red Tape by Francis TurnerIn which I partly agree with David Brooks and Mark Edmundson

Thanks to Stuart Schneiderman1, my attention was drawn to this NY Slimes column by David Brooks (it’s an archive link) in which he points out that there are a lot of bureaucrats in government and business and they seem to mostly subtract value rather than add it.

Brooks in turn links to an article by Mark Edmundson, a professor at the University of Virginia. In that article, wh...