Paperback, 464 pages
English language
Published Feb. 8, 1999 by Yale University Press.
Seeing Like a State
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy St)
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Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian central planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or a better life for the people.
Subjects
- Central government policies
- Constitution: government & the state
- Social welfare & social services
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Politics/International Relations
- Anthropology - Cultural
- Development - Economic Development
- Sociology - Social Theory
- Political Science / General
- Public Policy - Regional Planning