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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Yale Agrarian Studies) Book

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.Read More

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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.

  • 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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