The Swedes were the first to recognize that public officials like civil servants, police officers, health inspectors or tax-collectors can make mistakes or act over-zealously in the belief that they are serving the public.
The Swedes were the first to recognize that public official like civil servants, police officers, health inspectors or tax-collectors can make mistakes or act over-zealously in the belief that they are serving the public.
And indeed, why should a baker or a shoemaker or an entrepreneur or a farmer entertain less lofty views of their own calling than a tax inspector or a town hall secretary or a prime minister?