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Systems of Survival by Jane Jacobs

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Systems of Survival

A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics

A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics

By Jane Jacobs

By Jane Jacobs

By Jane Jacobs

By Jane Jacobs

Category: Domestic Politics | Business | Psychology

Category: Politics

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Paperback $17.00

Jan 13, 1994 | 256 Pages

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Aug 17, 2016 | 256 Pages

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    About Systems of Survival

    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 Systems of Survival

    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.

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    Also by Jane Jacobs

    The Question of Separatism
    Vital Little Plans
    Dark Age Ahead
    The Nature of Economies
    The Death and Life of Great American Cities
    See all books by Jane Jacobs

    About Jane Jacobs

    Jane Jacobs (1916–2006) was a writer who for more than forty years championed innovative, community-based approaches to urban planning. Her 1961 treatise The Death and Life of Great American Cities became perhaps the most influential text about the inner workings and failings of… More about Jane Jacobs

    About Jane Jacobs

    Jane Jacobs (1916–2006) was a writer who for more than forty years championed innovative, community-based approaches to urban planning. Her 1961 treatise The Death and Life of Great American Cities became perhaps the most influential text about the inner workings and failings of… More about Jane Jacobs

    Product Details

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 13, 1994 | 256 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679748168

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 17, 2016 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9780525432883

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    Praise

    “Altogether magnificent . . . Probably no single thinker has done more in the last fifty years to transform our ideas about the nature of urban life.” —Chicago Tribune

    “[With] piercing analysis, crystalline prose and [a] finely-honed sense of morality, Jacobs covers an amazing amount of ground.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer

    “Superb . . . Cobbling together a little urban anthropology, a little economic history, and a vast store of highly nuanced personal observations . . . Jacobs is an indispensable provocateur.” —Village Voice Literary Supplement

    Awards

    Governor General’s Literary Award – Nonfiction FINALIST 1993

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