{"product_id":"systems-of-survival-isbn-9780679748168","title":"Systems of Survival","description":"With intelligence and clarity of observation, the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Death and Life of Great American Cities\u003c\/i\u003e addresses the moral values that underpin working life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eSystems of Survival\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.“Altogether magnificent . . . Probably no single thinker has done more in the last fifty years to transform our ideas about the nature of urban life.” —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “[With] piercing analysis, crystalline prose and [a] finely-honed sense of morality, Jacobs covers an amazing amount of ground.” —\u003ci\u003eCleveland Plain Dealer\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “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.” —\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eJane Jacobs was the legendary author of \u003ci\u003eThe Death and Life of Great American Cities\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Economy of Cities\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSystems of Survival\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Nature of Economies\u003c\/i\u003e. She died in 2006.\u003c\/p\u003eAuthor of The Death and Life of Great American Cities","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305549058277,"sku":"NP9780679748168","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679748168.jpg?v=1767737705","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/systems-of-survival-isbn-9780679748168","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}