Looks at the connections between economics and nature and examines whether economic systems are shaped by the same forces at work in nature
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"What does Jane Jacobs do? She thinks and she writes books that have enormous impact around the world, particularly among urban planners, architects and economist."--Sid Adilman, The Toronto Star
"Jane Jacobs is an indispensable provocateur."--D. D. Guttenplan, Village Voice
"Probably no single thinker has doen more in the last 50 years to transform our ideas about the nature of urban life."--David Warsh, Chicago Tribune
"[Jacobs's] prose is majestic: difficult ideas are expounded with great clarity . . . . I believe that she has few peers among living American writers of prose."
--Francis Morrone, The New Criterion
"By insisting on the seriousness and consequence of intellect, she provides a testament to the life of
the mind in America and a necessary complement and counterweight for academic discourse."
--Thomas Bender, The Nation
Jane Jacobs's previous books include The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), The Economy of Cities (1968), The Question of Separatism (1980), Cities and the Wealth of Nations (1984), and Systems of Survival (1993). Since 1968 she has lived in Toronto, where she has taken an active role in helping to shape the city.
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