Seeing Like a State : How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by James C. Scott

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Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? In a wide-ranging and original study, 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 schematic visions are imposed on long-established structures without taking into account preexisting interdependencies.

 
 
 
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  • ISBN-13: 9780300078152
  • ISBN-10: 0300078153
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publish Date: February 1999
  • Page Count: 464

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