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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed - Veritas Paperbacks James C. Scott New edition
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed - Veritas Paperbacks
James C. Scott
An analysis of diverse failures in high-modernist, authoritarian state planning. It covers projects such as collectivization in Russia and the building of Brasilia, arguing that any centrally-managed social plan must recognize the importance of local customs and practical knowledge.
460 pages, 36 illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | February 8, 1999 |
| ISBN13 | 9780300078152 |
| Publishers | Yale University Press |
| Pages | 464 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 234 × 33 mm · 517 g |
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