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Seeing Like a State

Paperback • 1998 • English

Seeing Like a State: How certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed

By James C.

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About the book

James C. Scott analyses diverse failures in high-modernist, authoritarian state planning- collectivization in Russia, the building of Brasilia, compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, and others - and uncovers conditions common to all such planning disasters. What these failures can teach us, he argues, is that any centrally managed social plan must recognize the importance of local customs and practical knowledge of it hopes to succeed.

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9780300078152

Published year

1998

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English

Original title

Seeing Like a State

Format

Paperback

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