Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Paperback -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Power, Welfare, Incentives, Values -- PART I. Welfare: THE PROBLEM, AND A POSSIBLE SOLUTION -- 2. The Evolution of the Administrative State -- 3. The Purposes and Functional Modes of the Administrative State -- 4....

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