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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
by James C. Scott
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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
by James C. Scott
- 6 Ratings
- 73 Want to read
- 2 Currently reading
- 13 Have read
Previews available in: English
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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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, thePeople
V. I. Lenin, Jules Nyerere, Le Corbusier, Baron HaussmannPlaces
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