For society as a whole, paying for a handful of detectives at the local level is far more efficient than spending billions inside the Beltway on bloated bureaucracies and large-scale defensive measures that will most likely have little practical effect.
The late-stage model which in drug development is designed for massive pre- and postlaunch activities imposes a rigid bureaucracy that encourages large-scale experiments, conducted to maximize the likelihood of launch.
Still, there's a certain depressing fascination in the clean-up after a battle, and in the mire of bureaucracy that follows any large-scale action.
To his son and successor, Frederick II (the Great), he left the best-trained army in Europe, a financial reserve of 8,000,000 thalers, productive domains, provinces developed through large-scale colonization (particularly East Prussia), and a hardworking, thrifty, conscientious bureaucracy.
Building a modern army and bureaucracy required capital, and Egypt's rulers began large-scale plantations of a cash crop highly valued in Europe: cotton.
That's a pretty ambitious task, given India's infamous bureaucracy, corruption and a sketchy track record on accomplishing large-scale projects.
Bureaucracy is the managerial operating system of virtually every medium- and large-scale organization on the planet.
At that time, the government was severely restricting large-scale manufacturing, so importing yarn required hard-to-get licenses and creative maneuvering around the bureaucracy.
Reasons for this disparity may include the practical challenges of dealing with a large-scale diffuse threat, the diversity of pollutants involved, the high cost of water-treatment facilities, and bureaucracy.
Ah, large-scale ecclesiastical patronage.
