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Systems of Survival by Jane Jacobs

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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ISBN 13 9780679748168
ISBN 10 0679748164
Title Systems of Survival
Author Jane Jacobs
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Random House USA Inc
Year published 1994-01-13
Number of pages 256
Prizes Short-listed for Governor General's Literary Award - Nonfiction 1993
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.