Against the Profit Motive

Against the Profit Motive
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 582
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ISBN-10 : 9780300187304
ISBN-13 : 0300187300
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Book Synopsis Against the Profit Motive by : Nicholas R. Parrillo

Download or read book Against the Profit Motive written by Nicholas R. Parrillo and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 favor of the salary-transformed that relationship forever.


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