Red Tape: Its Origins, Uses, and Abuses

by Herbert Kaufman

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Death, taxes, and red tape. The inevitable trio no one can escape. That wry sense of reality colors Herbert Kaufman's classic study of red tape, the bureaucratic phenomenon that all of us have encountered in some form--from the confounding tax form filled out annually to the maddeningly time-consuming wait at the driver's license bureau.

The complaints about red tape, Kaufman concedes, are legion. It's messy, it takes too long, it lacks...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0815726600

ISBN13:9780815726609

Release Date:June 2015

Publisher:Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury

Length:132 Pages

Weight:0.40 lbs.

Dimensions:0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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