Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody. — Hannah Arendt · Skopia

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Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

The Human Condition · 1958

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Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition. University of Chicago Press, 1958, ch. 6.

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