Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
James C. Scott
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"One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades."--John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as "a magisterial critique of top-down social planning" by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail--sometimes catastrophically--in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. "Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit."--New Yorker "A tour de force."-- Charles Tilly, Columbia UniversityBinding Type: PaperbackAuthor: James C. ScottPublisher: Yale University PressPublished: 03/17/2020ISBN: 9780300246759Pages: 464Weight: 0.80lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.30d
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
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9780300246759
"One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades."--John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as "a magisterial critique of top-down social planning" by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail--sometimes catastrophically--in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. "Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit."--New Yorker "A tour de force."-- Charles Tilly, Columbia University
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: James C. Scott
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 03/17/2020
ISBN: 9780300246759
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.30d
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: James C. Scott
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 03/17/2020
ISBN: 9780300246759
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.30d
"One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades."--John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as "a magisterial critique of top-down social planning" by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail--sometimes catastrophically--in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. "Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit."--New Yorker "A tour de force."-- Charles Tilly, Columbia University
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: James C. Scott
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 03/17/2020
ISBN: 9780300246759
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.30d
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: James C. Scott
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 03/17/2020
ISBN: 9780300246759
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.30d
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