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Write short note: Bureaucracy and economic development.

  • UPSC 1990
  • Politics and Society

The relationship runs both ways. Max Weber held that rational capitalism needs calculable law and administration. After 1945, planners in new states made bureaucracy the engine of development. By the 1970s critics blamed it for stagnation. The current consensus is that development depends less on the size of bureaucracy than on its kind.

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