Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics

Jacobs, Jane

ISBN 10: 0679748164 / ISBN 13: 9780679748168

Published by Vintage, 1994

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Synopsis:

With intelligence and clarity of observation, the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities addresses the moral values that underpin working life.

In Systems of Survival, Jane Jacobs identifies two distinct moral syndromes--one governing commerce, the other, politics--and explores what happens when these two syndromes collide. She looks at business fraud and criminal enterprise, government's overextended subsidies to agriculture, and transit police who abuse the system the are supposed to enforce, and asks us to consider instances in which snobbery is a virtue and industry a vice. In this work of profound insight and elegance, Jacobs gives us a new way of seeing all our public transactions and encourages us towards the best use of our natural inclinations.

About the Author:

Jane Jacobs was the legendary author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, a work that has never gone out of print and that has transformed the disciplines of urban planning and city architecture. Her other major works include The Economy of Cities, Systems of Survival, and The Nature of Economies. She died in 2006.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral...
Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: 1994
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: acceptable