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.
256 pages, 7 editions
English edition · First published 1992 by Random House Digital Inc. · ISBN 9780525432883
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Editions
7 editions
English
- Systems of Survival · Random House Digital Inc. · 2016 · ISBN 9780525432883 This page
- Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics · Blackstone Publishing · 2022 · ISBN 9798212033442
- Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics · Blackstone Publishing · 2022 · ISBN 9798212033459
- Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics · Vintage Books · 1994 · ISBN 9780679748168
- Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics · Hodder & Stoughton · 1993 · ISBN 9780340591772
- Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics · Random House · 1992 · ISBN 9780394550794
- Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics; Library Edition · Blackstone Publishing · ISBN 9798212033435
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