Seeing Like a State

How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

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James C. Scott: Seeing Like a State (2010, Yale University Press)

445 pages

English language

Published Aug. 25, 2010 by Yale University Press.

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978-1-281-72913-2
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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.

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