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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