“In this day and age, we need to revise the old saying to read, "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned."”

"Bureaucracy Scorned" in Newsweek (29 December 1975), later published in Bright Promises, Dismal Performance : An Economist's Protest (1983)

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American economist, statistician, and writer 1912–2006

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