Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

Name: Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Brand: Yale University Press
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By Scott, James C.

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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.

Product details

Binding:

Paperback

Edition:

1

Number of Pages:

464

Release Date:

1999-02-08

Publication Date:

1999-02-28

Publisher:

Yale University Press

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

0300078153

ISBN13:

9780300078152

Weight:

528 g

Height:

156 cm

Width:

238 cm

Thickness:

35 cm

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