Description: Seeing Like a State : How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, Paperback by Scott, James C., ISBN 0300246757, ISBN-13 9780300246759, Brand New, Free shipping in the US One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.John Gray, New York Times Book Review Apowerful, and in many insightful, explanation as to why grandiose programs of social reform, not to mention revolution, so often end in tragedy. . . . An important critique of visionary state planning.Robert Heilbroner, Lingua Franca Hailed as a magisterial critique of top-down social planning by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often failsometimes catastrophicallyin grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.New Yorker A tour de force. Charles Tilly, Columbia University
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Book Title: Seeing Like a State : How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Co
Number of Pages: 464 Pages
Publication Name: Seeing like a State : How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Subject: General, Economics / General
Item Height: 1.3 in
Publication Year: 2020
Item Weight: 12.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: James C. Scott
Item Length: 7.7 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Business & Economics
Series: Veritas Paperbacks Ser.
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
