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...PARKINSON'S LAW, by C. Northcote Parkinson, Houghton Mifflin Co., 113 pp., $3.00. Illustrated...
...Northcote Parkinson, Raffles Professor of History at the University of Malaya, is an eminent authority on the science of administration. Parkinson's Law is a learned and sometimes mathematical study of the sociology of bureaucracy and bureaucrats...
...absence of footnotes in this book is misleading, however. This is not a book for the layman. Familiarity with Michel's Iron Law of Oligarchy is essential if one is to negotiate the complexities of Parkinson's cogent argumentation and meaningful insights...
...Parkinson's Law asserts "...that the number of the officials and the quantity of the work are not related to each other at all." For example, while the number of ships and officers in the British Navy was cut by 67 per cent and 31 per cent respectively, the number of dockvard workers and clerks and Admiralty bureaucrats increased 40 per cent and 78 per cent. Why? Like gravity, it was inevitable...
...Parkinson's Law is the best of these three books. It is original, subtle, and genial. Professor Parkinson's humor is neither outrageous nor mundane. And unlike Kerr and Wright, he does not write for the Saturday Evening Post audience or the suburban literati...