false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171059795m/85400.jpg 85400 5 Over the past 40 years, Jane Jacobs has produced an acclaimed series of analytical essays that examine the development of complex human systems and environments in a manner that's as literary as it is visionary. Her latest, <I>The Nature of Economies</I>, continues this artistic and provocative tradition by dissecting relationships between economics and ecology through a multilayered discourse around the fundamental premise that "human beings exist wholly within nature as part of a natural order." In a style reminiscent of the cinematic <I>My Dinner with Andre</I>, Jacobs gives us a captivating ongoing conversation between five contemporary New Yorkers who sip coffee and voice accepted, fact-based theories along with subjective but solid opinions regarding the way our society's fractal-like development is actually dependent upon "the same universal principles that the rest of nature uses." Digressing onto various and sundry paths as such dialogues always do--albeit, this time, on a very specific and methodical route as prescribed by Jacobs--the characters mull over business cycles, animal husbandry, habitat destruction, the implications of standardization and monopoly, competition in nature, the obsolescence of computers, and much, much more. This book is recommended for the eclectically curious who welcome the opportunity to eavesdrop on such stimulating table talk, even while lamenting the fact they can't join in. --<I>Howard Rothman</I> 1080978 2000 The Nature of Economies total:62|5:15|4:23|3:18|2:4|1:2| 62 231 108 14 2 0 false false Sat Jan 10 17:33:08 -0800 2009 Sat Apr 11 16:23:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Jan 06 16:25:09 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 16:25:09 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Nov 20 14:12:47 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 14:15:15 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Thu Dec 04 14:53:21 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 14:55:59 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 02 21:35:16 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 08 16:36:11 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Wed Aug 13 18:59:10 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 13 19:13:38 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 18:26:14 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 18:05:43 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 16:23:21 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 21 16:17:39 -0700 2008 The character driven approach really worked for me to put together the strands of that I think is a fairly intricate economic/ecological theory. I enjoyed the narrative, thin a...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 13 08:04:03 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 13 09:49:21 -0700 2008
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