Against the profit motive : the salary revolution in American government, 1780-1940
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Against the profit motive : the salary revolution in American government, 1780-1940
(Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference)
Yale University Press, c2013
- : hardcover
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Includes index
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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 provided for officials to make money on a profit-seeking basis. Prosecutors won a fee for each defendant convicted. Tax collectors received a percentage of each evasion uncovered. Naval officers took a reward for each ship sunk. Numerous other officers were likewise paid for "performance." This book is the first to document the American government's for-profit past, to discover how profit-seeking defined officialdom's relationship to the citizenry, and to explain how lawmakers-by ultimately banishing the profit motive in favor of the salary-transformed that relationship forever.
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