Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and PoliticsThe 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. |
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Contents
ONE Armbrusters Summons | 3 |
TWO A Pair of Contradictions | 23 |
THREE Kate on the Commercial Syndrome | 37 |
FOUR Why Two Syndromes? | 51 |
SEVEN Anomalies | 112 |
EIGHT Casts of Mind | 123 |
ELEVEN Hortense on Castes and Flexibility | 179 |
TWELVE Pitfalls if the Methods | 191 |
THIRTEEN Hortenses Defense J Moral Flexibility | 205 |
FOURTEEN Plans and Champagne | 212 |
Notes | 228 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics Vintage Series |
| Author | Jane Jacobs |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Vintage Books, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0679748164, 9780679748168 |
| Length | 236 pages |
| Subjects | › › Philosophy / General Political Science / Political Economy Social Science / Sociology / General |
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