On the other hand, enforcing the law clogs up courts and keeps bureaucrats busy, at substantial cost.
When power is in the hands of an authoritarian government that keeps bureaucrats under firm control, the state is able to act like a smart monopolist: its employees charge prices that are high but not too high, and are able to deliver what they promise.
Andrew Herbert, head of Microsoft's research centre in Cambridge, England, puts it this way: "Our brand hides a tremendous amount of innovation".Open innovation also appears to keep corporate bureaucrats on their toes, making companies better at competing.
Gardner further claims in his ad that Udall "wants to keep government bureaucrats between you and your health care plan".
To the extent that policymaking got us into this mess, debates along these lines deserve as much blame as the resulting policy.In truth, whether one believes the government should limit itself to activities named in the constitution, or keep a bureaucrat in the neighbour's kitchen waiting for something to scold, ideology rarely delivers welcome results.
He keeps meddlesome bureaucrats at bay through political connections with the Moscow city government; a combination of anonymity and security does the same for gangsters.
He declared war on the factions and other networks of patronage through which money and power flowed, and which kept politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen in the same cosy bed.
He gave them jobs, helped the poorest among them to pay for their daughters' weddings, built temples and kept meddlesome bureaucrats away with well-placed bribes, the police say.
But even if the bureaucrats keep to Mr Klaus's timetable, these measures are unlikely to come into force before the autumn.
Details are a tad sketchy at the moment, but the Tate Movie Project appears to be one of those impeccably 21st century creations, designed to keep arts-funding bureaucrats, if no one else, on the edge of their seats.
