nomic lý thuyết nhất thiết phải hiển thị phù phiếm của họ. Đây là lý do tại sao kinh tế là tabooed bởi các quan chức. Nhưng governmentsencourage các chuyên gia giới hạn quan sát của họ cho một lĩnh vực hẹp mà không cần bận tâm về những hậu quả của chính sách một. | Imịỉícations of bureaucratization 85 nomic theory must necessarily show their futility. This is why economics is tabooed by the bureaucrats. But the governments encourage the specialists who limit their observations to a narrow field without bothering about the further consequences of a policy. The labor economist deals only with the immediate results of pro-labor policies the farm economist only with the rise of agricultural prices. They both view the problems only from the angle of those pressure groups which are immediately favored by the measure in question and disregard its ultimate social consequences. They are not economists but expounders of government activities in a particular branch of the administration. For under government interference with business the unity of government policies has long since disintegrated into badly coordinated parts. Gone are the days when it was still possible to speak of a government s policy. Today in most countries each department follows its own course working against the endeavors of the other departments. The department of labor aims at higher wage rates and at lower living costs. But the same administration s department of agriculture aims at higher food prices and the department of commerce tries to raise domestic commodity prices by tariffs. One department fights against monopoly but other departments are eager to bring about by tariffs patents and other means the conditions required for the building of monopolistic restraint. And each department refers to the expert opinion of those specialized in their respective fields. Thus the students no longer receive an initiation into economics. They learn incoherent and disconnected facts about various government measures thwarting one another. Their doctor s theses and their graduate research work deal not with economics but with various topics of economic history and various instances of government interference with business. Such detailed and well-documented statistical .
