Il boiardo di Stato

A further reason for governmental inefficiency has been
touched on already: that the personnel have no incentive to be
efficient. In fact, the skills they will develop will not be the economic
skills of production, but political skills—how to fawn on
political superiors, how demagogically to attract the electorate,
how to wield force most effectively. These skills are very different
from the productive ones, and therefore different peoplewill rise to the top in the government from those who succeed in the market

 Rothnard, "Power and Market" pag 219