An edition of Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (1998)

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How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

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An edition of Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (1998)

Seeing Like a State

How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

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Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian central planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or a better life for the people.

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Yale University Press
Language
English
Pages
446

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Subjects

Central planning, Social engineering, Social aspects of Central planning, Social aspects, Authoritarianism, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Economic assistance, domestic, Social problems, Human services, State, the, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, Economic Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Government & Business, Development, Economic Development, Business Development, Structural Adjustment, General, Pays en développement, Pays de l'Est, Economie dirigée, Régimes totalitaires, Aspects sociaux, Autoritarisme, Planeconomie, Utopieën, Maatschappijverbetering, PLANEJAMENTO ECONÔMICO (ASPECTOS SOCIAIS), AUTORITARISMO (SISTEMAS DE GOVERNO), ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURAL E SOCIAL, PLANEJAMENTO TERRITORIAL (AVALIAÇÃO), Planification économique, Aspect social, Ingénierie sociale

People

V. I. Lenin, Jules Nyerere, Le Corbusier, Baron Haussmann

Places

Tanzania, Soviet Russia, Brasilia

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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy St)
February 8, 1999, Yale University Press
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Seeing like a state: how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed
1998, Yale University Press
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
1998-03-30, Yale University Press
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Library of Congress
HD87.5 .S365 1998, HD87.5.S365 1998

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Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
446
Dimensions
9.5 x 6.4 x 1.3 inches
Weight
1.9 pounds

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL26202593M
ISBN 13
9780300070163
LCCN
97026556
OCLC/WorldCat
97026556, 1025592573
Wikidata
Q111712214

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OL26241985W

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