464 pages
English language
Published Aug. 25, 2008 by Yale University Press.
Seeing Like a State
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
James C. Scott: Seeing Like a State (2008, Yale University Press)
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- 978-0-300-12878-9
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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
- Economic assistance, domestic
- Social problems
- Human services
- State, the