Against the profit motive : the salary revolution in American government, 1780-1940 /
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 defendatn convicted. Tax collectors received a cut of each evasion incovered. Naval...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2013.
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Colección: | Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The old regime : lawful bargaining for public services
- Bargaining outlawed
- A regulatory nightmare : salaries as a remedy for corrupt exchange and official lucre
- A government capable of saying "no" : salaries as a reaction against customer service
- State and local taxation : the tax ferrets
- Federal taxation : the moiety men
- Criminal prosecution : cash for convictions
- Incarceration : jailors' fees and penitentiary profits
- Naval warfare : prize money and blood money
- Epilogue : American state-building and the critique of bureaucracy.