A01=Nicholas R. Parrillo
Author_Nicholas R. Parrillo
Category=JPP
Category=LAZ
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Product details
- ISBN 9780300194753
- Weight: 794g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 22 Oct 2013
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Nicholas R. Parrillo is associate professor of law at Yale University.
