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Seeing Like a State How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

Hardcover • 2020 • English

Seeing Like a State How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

By James C. Scott

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"One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades."--John Gray, New York Times Book Review 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. "Beau...Show more

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ISBN

9780300246759

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published year

2020

Language

English

Original title

Seeing Like a State How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

Format

Hardcover

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