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James C. Scott Seeing Like a State

How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

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Yale University Press

USA

2020

Paperback

464

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316299

978-0-300-24675-9

0-300-24675-7

Central government policies

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Hailed as "a magisterial critique of top-down social planning" by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail--sometimes catastrophically--in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters.

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