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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Yale Agrarian Studies) Book
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Seeing Like a State : Paperback : Yale University Press : 9780300078152 : 0300078153 : 09 Mar 1999 : An analysis of diverse failures in high-modernist, authoritarian state planning. It covers projects such as collectivization in Russia and the building of Brasilia, arguing that any centrally-managed social plan must recognize the importance of local customs and practical knowledge.
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Blackwell
Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? In a wide-ranging and original study, James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. He argues that centrally...
- 0300078153
- 9780300078152
- J C Scott
- 9 March 1999
- Yale University Press
- Paperback (Book)
- 464
- New edition
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