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Against the Profit Motive

Language EnglishEnglish
Book Paperback
Book Against the Profit Motive NicholasR Parrillo
Libristo code: 01989532
Publishers Yale University Press, October 2013
In America today, a public official's lawful income consists of a salary. But until a century ago, t... Full description
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In America today, a public official's lawful income consists of a salary. But until a century ago, the law frequently authorized officials to make money on a profit-seeking basis. Prosecutors won a fee for each defendant convicted. Tax collectors received a cut of each evasion uncovered. Naval officers took a reward for each ship sunk. The list goes on. This book is the first to document American government's "for-profit" past, to discover how profit-seeking defined officials' relationship to the citizenry, and to explain how lawmakers - by banishing the profit motive in favour of the salary - transformed that relationship forever.

About the book

Full name Against the Profit Motive
Author NicholasR Parrillo
Language English
Binding Book - Paperback
Date of issue 2013
Number of pages 584
EAN 9780300194753
ISBN 0300194757
Libristo code 01989532
Publishers Yale University Press
Weight 798
Dimensions 157 x 230 x 31

Categories

Society & Social Sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory
Society & Social Sciences > Politics & government > Public administration
Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal history
History & Archaeology > History > History of the Americas
Place qualifiers > The Americas > North America (USA & Canada) > United States of America, USA
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