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Seeing Like a State : How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Overview
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
- Dimensions: 9.22 x 6.16 x 1.22 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.14 pounds
- Page Count: 464
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