Systems of Survival A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics

by JACOBS, JANE

• ISBN13: 9780679748168
• ISBN10: 0679748164
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-01-13
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Preface
Armbruster's Summons	p. 3
A Pair of Contradictions	p. 23
Kate on the Commercial Syndrome	p. 33
Why Two Syndromes?	p. 51
Jasper and Kate on the Guardian Syndrome	p. 57
Trading, Taking, and Monstrous Hybrids	p. 93
Anomalies	p. 112
Casts of Mind	p. 123
Armbruster on Systemic Moral Corruption	p. 131
Syndrome-Friendly Inventions	p. 158
Hortense on Castes and Flexibility	p. 179
Pitfalls of the Methods	p. 191
Hortense's Defense of Moral Flexibility	p. 205
Plans and Champagne	p. 212
Appendix: The Commercial and Guardian Moral Syndromes	p. 215
Notes	p. 217
Acknowledgments	p. 235
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