By David Brady, Jr.
Long before DEI, Ludwig von Mises explained how bureaucracies infect the decision-making process.
Mises:
Under this system the government has unlimited power to ruin every enterprise or to lavish favors upon it. The success or failure of every business depends entirely upon the free discretion of those in office. If the businessman does not happen to be a citizen of a powerful foreign nation whose diplomatic and consular agents grant him protection, he is at the mercy of the administration and the ruling party.