Systems of Survival

A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics

By Jane Jacobs
(Vintage, Paperback, 9780679748168, 256pp.)

Publication Date: January 13, 1994

Categories: Economic Conditions, General, Sociology - Social Theory

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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.




About the Author

Jane Jacobs was the legendary author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, a work that has never gone out of print and that has transformed the disciplines of urban planning and city architecture. Her other major works include The Economy of Cities, Systems of Survival, The Nature of Economies and Dark Age Ahead. She died in 2006.




Praise For Systems of Survival

"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

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