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Bureaucracy
An annotated collection of 2 books on bureaucracy, spanning 1977 to 2014. Featuring works by Alfred Chandler, Martin Amis — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
Alfred Chandler, 1977 · Harvard University Press
The large American corporations of the twentieth century grew because professional management — the "visible hand" of the manager — was more efficient than the market at coordinating complex activities at scale. Layers o…
The Zone of Interest
Martin Amis, 2014
Amis sets his novel inside the Nazi extermination apparatus, narrating through perpetrators and bystanders who have so thoroughly normalised their work that atrocity becomes administrative routine—a condition he calls th…