Director of the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University, Jorrit de Jong, explains how governments and other ...

Writing in the early twentieth century, the sociologist Max Weber saw bureaucracy as dehumanizing ... the indolent bureaucrat makes for an ideal scapegoat. In the late nineteenth century, the Ottoman ...

Max Weber is considered a pioneer of the rationalist trend in the second half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. His full ...

This is the nature of an ideal bureaucracy as Max Weber theorized it. Weber described bureaucracies as institutions that are highly organized, formalized and impersonal. They operate according to ...

And here is Max Weber in Economy and Society (1922): "Once it is fully established, bureaucracy is among those social structures which are the hardest to destroy." Now, let us apply this to the ...

For instance, Robert Merton contended that Burawoy had not demonstrated his claims that the undemocratic nature of industrial bureaucracy in America emanated ... after a full hour discussing Max Weber ...

“No one likes bureaucracy,” Weingarten said. Not so: I like bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is what gave us the interstate highway system and the moon landing. (Private companies are still trying ...

Inspired by David Graeber’s book, ‘The Utopia of Rules’ at 72-13, Singapore asks how we might hack various systems of control ...

In 1963, political theorist Hannah Arendt observed something terrifying at the trial of Adolf Eichmann: that one of the ...