In this paper I would like to present a few links between bureaucracy and economy. First of all the bureaucracy is always a cost to society, but this cost may be accepted insofar as it makes social order possible, and maintains it by enforcing the rule of law. On the other hand the bureaucrats are having a lot of access to much public information, but they are not always transmitting the information further to the citizens. Unfortunately they are the only ones who can transmit this information’s and in this case we can talk about the monopole over the public information’s. Also, in this paper I would like to present the problems that a businessman can have to invest in Romania because of the suffocating bureaucracy and the approvals that is obligated to get from the public administrations.

bureaucracy, opportunity cost, corruption, artificial jobs