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

Name: Systems of Survival A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics
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ISBN: 9780679748168

ISBN-10: 0679748164

ISBN-13: 9780679748168

Edition: N/A

Authors: Jane Jacobs

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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. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/13/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.99" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Jane Jacobs lives in Toronto.



Preface



Armbruster's Summons



A Pair of Contradictions



Kate on the Commercial Syndrome



Why Two Syndromes?



Jasper and Kate on the Guardian Syndrome



Trading, Taking, and Monstrous Hybrids



Anomalies



Casts of Mind



Armbruster on Systemic Moral Corruption



Syndrome-Friendly Inventions



Hortense on Castes and Flexibility



Pitfalls of the Methods



Hortense's Defense of Moral Flexibility



Plans and Champagne


Appendix: The Commercial and Guardian Moral Syndromes


Notes


Acknowledgments