Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Parrillo, Nicholas R.
Titre(s) : Against the profit motive [Texte imprimé] : the salary revolution in American government, 1780-1940 / Nicholas R. Parrillo
Publication : New Haven (Conn.) : Yale University Press, copyright 2013
Description matérielle : xi, 568 pages ; 24 cm
Collection : Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference
Lien à la collection : Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-541) and index
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
Sujet(s) : Juristes -- Honoraires -- États-Unis -- Histoire
Fonctionnaires -- Traitements, indemnités, etc. -- États-Unis -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
331.281 347016 (23e éd.) = Rémunération des fonctionnaires et auxiliaires de justice ; 973 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780300176582. - ISBN 0300176589. - ISBN 9780300194753. - ISBN 0300194757
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb457072625
Notice n° :
FRBNF45707262
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : I. Facilitative payments to salaries ; 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 ; II. Bounties to salaries ; 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.
