In a similar vein du Gay (2000) makes some incisive remarks in his book In Praise of
Bureaucracy. He castigates advocates of contemporary administrative reforms for
claiming economy, efficiency and effectiveness are fundamentally the same. In any
organizational context, the relationship between the three is complex. It is doubly so in
the public domain in which public managers are often led to believe that there are zero
costs associated with market-led reforms. The real purpose of the advocates of reform
is described by du Gay (2000, p. 106) as: