Systems of Survival : A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics (Paperback)

from nicdevera

I first heard of this book from Venkatesh Rao, subconsciously I'd been building it up in my head for years. The actual text is a letdown, and the dialog format is a distracting affectation. The Wikipedia page on Systems of Survival gives a perfectly adequate encapsulation of the guardian and comm...

from mikerr

In this slim volume, Jacobs articulates the two moral systems humans have evolved over the centuries: that of traders (commerce), and that of guardians (government). Once stated, they seem so obvious, but failure to recognize the differences results in serious chaos. As topical today as it was in...

from Miro

Speaking as guardian who has spent his life as a commercial I found this book very enlightening. It's a brilliant exposition of the tensions between the two systems and the way that they are fated to live together. The book made it clear to me that society needs both guardians and commercials (ie...

from Miro

Speaking as guardian who has spent his life as a commercial I found this book very enlightening. It's a brilliant exposition of the tensions between the two systems and the way that they are fated to live together. The book made it clear to me that society needs both guardians and commercials (ie...