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Systems of Survival
Jane Jacobs
其他書名
A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 1994-01-13
主題
Political Science / Public Policy / General
Business & Economics / Business Ethics
Social Science / Sociology / Social Theory
ISBN
0679748164
9780679748168
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Km4xAyyWwnsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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.