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EAN : 9782707174390
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 144
Size : 135 x 220 mm
BUREAUCRATIC INFLATION

Collection : Cahiers libres
Release date : 20/09/2012

« Bureaucracy » is a term that can be applied to businesses, the private sector, the market economy, non-governmental organizations…To anyone living, producing and consuming today, one thing is evident: the growing place of bureaucracy.
How else can the growing requirement of paper be explained – documents are required to travel,...

« Bureaucracy » is a term that can be applied to businesses, the private sector, the market economy, non-governmental organizations…To anyone living, producing and consuming today, one thing is evident: the growing place of bureaucracy.
How else can the growing requirement of paper be explained – documents are required to travel, to study, to be insured -, the relentless confrontation with formal procedures – to get a loans, have electricity or access to a computer network, rent a flat etc-. We are increasingly asked to comply with standards and rules - to ensure that the accounts of a company are certified, that vegetable can be labeled organic… There are endless examples of this growing bureaucracy, which shouldn’t be defined as a prerogative of a State’s apparatus, but as a set of standards, rules, procedures and formalities that encompasses not only governmental administration but the whole of society.

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EAN : 9782707174390
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 144
Size : 135 x 220 mm
La Découverte