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

L'oeil de l'Etat - Moderniser, uniformiser, détruire

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

L'oeil de l'Etat - Moderniser, uniformiser, détruire

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  • ★★★★ 4.31 ·
  • 13 Ratings
  • 116 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
  • 20 Have read

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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LA DECOUVERTE
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600

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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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L'oeil de l'Etat - Moderniser, uniformiser, détruire
Jan 07, 2021, LA DECOUVERTE
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Jan 07, 2021, LA DECOUVERTE
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
2020, Yale University Press
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
May 22, 2018, Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Audio
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
2010, Yale University Press
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
2008, Yale University Press
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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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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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Source title: L'oeil de l'Etat - Moderniser, uniformiser, détruire (French Edition)

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Number of pages
600

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OL31854442M
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2348057352
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9782348057359

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