A Terrible Efficiency Entrepreneurial Bureaucrats and the Nazi Holocaust /

• Main Author: Mixon, Jr., Franklin G. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Economic history.; Welfare economics.; World War, 1939-1945.; Economic History.; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy.; History of World War II and the Holocaust.

This book provides numerous examples that apply the modern theory of bureaucracy developed in Breton and Wintrobe (1982 and 1986) to the Nazi Holocaust. More specifically, the book argues, as do Breton and Wintrobe (1986), that the subordinates in the Nazi bureaucracy were not "following orders...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Organization of Terror and Murder
• 2. The Modern Theory of Bureaucracy
• 3. Bureaucratic Competition in the Third Reich
• 4. Vertical Trust Networks in the Nazi Bureaucracy
• 5. Horizontal Trust Networks in the Nazi Bureaucracy
• 6. Coercion and Vertical Trust in the Nazi Bureaucracy
• 7. The Last of the Nazi's Vertical Trust Networks?