Publicans & Sinners
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Publicans during the Roman era were the tax collectors who collected revenues for the Roman capitalists, who contracted them to do so. Farmers and those in foreign lands despised their existence and saw them as the avaricious tools of the Romans. However, in Publicans and Sinners, Badian seeks to prove that the information available to us from the time demonstrates that they were not the avaricious, politically powerful men that social prejudice and poor historical scholarship have painted them. Badian instead reveals how they were seldom politically ambitious, often were responsible for the great success of the Romans (in public enterprises and military conquests), and, that the actual problem for which they are traditionally scapegoated was corrupt government, “Rome discovered, in the end, that the key to the problem of private enterprise in the public service-any public service-lies in those who govern and in the principles and practices of Government.”In the first chapter, Badian explains that historically the publicans have been blamed for everything from greedy exploitation of the poor to the downfall of the Roman Empire. However, he provides evidence that argues against any such monumental blame being placed upon them. Badian attempts to do this by showing us the proper function of the private publicans and the state and the interaction between the two. He argues that all states must have revenue collection systems in orde
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Approximate Word count = 900
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page)
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