| Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics Contributor(s): Jacobs, Jane (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679748164 ISBN-13: 9780679748168 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1994 Annotation: The author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities looks at business fraud and criminal enterprise, overextended government farm subsidies and zealous transit police, to show what happens when the moral systems of commerce collide with those of politics. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Social Theory - Political Science | Political Economy - Philosophy |
| Dewey: 174.4 |
| LCCN: 93032018 |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.4" W x 8" (0.46 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |