格雷伯尔用他所谓的“自由主义的铁律”总结了这一观点 ： “ 任何市场化改革，任何旨在减少红头文件、促进市场力量的政府计划，都会导致监管规则总量、红头文件总量和政府雇用的官僚总人数增加的最终效应。
Graeber sums up this argument in what he calls an “iron law of liberalism”: “any market reform, any government initiative intended to reduce red tape and promote market forces, will have the ultimate effect of increasing the total number of regulations, the total amount of paperwork, and the total number of bureaucrats the government employs.”