Author: Nicholas R. Parrillo
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300176589
Size: 13.40 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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by Nicholas R. Parrillo, release date 2013-10-22, Against The Profit Motive Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download
Against The Profit Motive books, DIVIn 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 favor of the salary—transformed that relationship forever./div
