Seeing like a state how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed
In this wide-ranging and original book, James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. He argues that centrally managed social plans derail when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not - and cannot be -...
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New Haven
Yale University Press
[1998]
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| Series: | Yale ISPS series.
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