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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed: (Yale Agrarian Studies)

 
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed: (Yale Agrarian Studies)

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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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EAN/ISBN:
9780300078152
Edition:
New edition
Medium:
Paperback
Number of pages:
464
Publication date:
1999-03-09
Publisher:
Yale Univ Pr
Languages:
english
Manufacturer:
Unknown
EAN/ISBN:
9780300078152
Edition:
New edition
Medium:
Paperback
Number of pages:
464
Publication date:
1999-03-09
Publisher:
Yale Univ Pr
Languages:
english
Manufacturer:
Unknown

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