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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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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 socialePeople
V. I. Lenin, Jules Nyerere, Le Corbusier, Baron HaussmannPlaces
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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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First Sentence
"Certain forms of knowledge and control require a narrowing of vision."
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments.
Page ix
Introduction.
Page 1
Part 1.
STATE PROJECTS OF LEGIBILITY AND SIMPLIFICATION
Page 9
Chapter 1.
Nature and Space
Page 11
Chapter 2.
Cities, People, and Language
Page 53
Part 2.
TRANSFORMING VISIONS
Page 85
Chapter 3.
Authoritarian High Modernism
Page 87
Chapter 4.
The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique
Page 103
Chapter 5.
The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis
Page 147
Part 3.
THE SOCIAL ENGINEERING OF RURAL SETTLEMENT AND PRODUCTION
Page 181
Chapter 6.
Soviet Collectivization, Capitalist Dreams
Page 193
Chapter 7.
Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania: Aesthetics and Miniaturization
Page 223
Chapter 8.
Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity
Page 262
PART 4.
THE MISSING LINK
Page 307
Chapter 9.
Thin Simplifications and Practical Knowledge: Métis
Page 309
Chapter 10.
Conclusion
Page 342
Notes.
Page 359
Sources for Illustrations.
Page 433
Index.
Page 435
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