Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Institution for Social and Policy Studies)

Name: Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Institution for Social and Policy Studies)
Brand: Yale University Press
SKU: 9780300078152-V
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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.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 464
Release Date:: 1999-02-08
Publication Date:: 1999-02-08
Publisher:: Yale University Press
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0300078153
Weight:: 635 g
Height:: 3 cm
Width:: 23.4 cm
Thickness:: 15.6 cm

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