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Systems of Survival
- Author
- Jane Jacobs
- Narrator
- Kate Rudd
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 13 September 2022
- Run Time
- 9 hours 23 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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.
Critics Review
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“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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“[With] piercing analysis, crystalline prose and [a] finely-honed sense of morality, Jacobs covers an amazing amount of ground.”
Cleveland Plain Dealer
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“Superb…Cobbling together a little urban anthropology, a little economic history, and a vast store of highly nuanced personal observations…Jacobs is an indispensable provocateur.”
Village Voice Literary Supplement
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Details
- Author
- Jane Jacobs
- Narrator
- Kate Rudd
- Duration
- 9 hours 23 minutes
- Release Date
- 13 September 2022
- ISBN
- 9798212033497
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Central / national / federal government policies, Business ethics and social responsibility, Social theory
Synopsis
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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