Systems of Survival

A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics

Business & Finance, Business Reference, Business Ethics, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, Economic Conditions, Economics, Economic History
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Author: Jane Jacobs ISBN: 9780525432883
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: August 17, 2016
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Jane Jacobs
ISBN: 9780525432883
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: August 17, 2016
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

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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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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