{"id":1289,"date":"2009-08-02T23:27:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T03:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2018-08-08T19:42:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T23:42:51","slug":"17962-jane-jacobs-the-nature-of-economies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1289","title":{"rendered":"17962. (Jane Jacobs) The Nature of Economies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This, the sec\u00adond-last of Jane Jacobs books, con\u00adtin\u00adues the \u201cdia\u00adlogue\u201d ini\u00adti\u00adat\u00aded in Sys\u00adtems of Sur\u00advival. The start\u00ading point of the con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion is this prof\u00adfered axiom: \u201chuman beings exist whol\u00adly with\u00adin nature as part of the nat\u00adur\u00adal order in every respect\u201d.&nbsp;From here, Jacobs argues that ecosys\u00adtems and economies should be con\u00adcep\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adized in rough\u00adly the same way, and that the same prin\u00adci\u00adples of co-ordi\u00adna\u00adtion, inter\u00adde\u00adpen\u00addence, com\u00adbi\u00adna\u00adtion, and re-com\u00adbi\u00adna\u00adtion under\u00adlie them. It is good, sol\u00adid stuff \u2014 vin\u00adtage Jacobs. Plen\u00adty of con\u00adcrete exam\u00adples are used to bring the abstract argu\u00adments down to&nbsp;earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I rec\u00adom\u00admend that any\u00adone engaged in any of the dis\u00adci\u00adplines of the human\u00adi\u00adties \u2014 his\u00adto\u00adry, eco\u00adnom\u00adics, pol\u00adi\u00adtics, archae\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy, urbanol\u00ado\u00adgy, anthro\u00adpol\u00ado\u00adgy, soci\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy, phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy \u2014 should famil\u00adiar\u00adize them\u00adself with this remark\u00adable wom\u00adan\u2019s work. She made major con\u00adtri\u00adbu\u00adtions to all of these fields, and cre\u00adat\u00aded a body of thought that tran\u00adscends their boundaries.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This, the sec\u00adond-last of Jane Jacobs books, con\u00adtin\u00adues the \u201cdia\u00adlogue\u201d ini\u00adti\u00adat\u00aded in Sys\u00adtems of Sur\u00advival. The start\u00ading point of the con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion is this prof\u00adfered axiom: \u201chuman beings exist whol\u00adly with\u00adin nature as part of the nat\u00adur\u00adal order in every respect\u201d.&nbsp;From&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1289\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-reading","category-br-reading-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7960,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions\/7960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}