https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/K2_dPLBlvDI
Further reading:
Bureaucracy by Ludwig von Mises
The Myth of Efficient Government Service by Murray N. Rothbard (Chapter 5, Section 2 in Power and Market)
You Can't Run a Government “Like a Business” by Brian Balfour
Why Government Cannot Be Run Like a Business by Peter G. Klein
Further resources on the military-industrial complex:
The Costs of War
How War Leads to Big Government
Further resources on poverty, the welfare state, development and “foreign aid”:
Growth of the Welfare State
Growth Theory: Two Views
Further resources on monopolies:
Competition and Monopoly
Government and Big Business
Further resources on the financial crisis:
The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle
Austrian Economics vs. Conventional Wisdom
Further resources on regulations and product safety:
Product Regulation
Further resources on scientific research and funding:
Economics of Science and Technology
Further resources on the nature of the state:
Anatomy of the State by Murray N. Rothbard (Chapter 3 in Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, and Other Essays)
The State Is Too Dangerous to Tolerate
We’re in the Middle of a Long War with the State
Warfare, Welfare, and the State
