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Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed / James C. Scott.
Annenberg Library - Reserve HD87.5 .S365 1998
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Fine Arts Library HD87.5 .S375 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scott, James C.
- Series:
- Yale agrarian studies
- Yale ISPS series
- The Yale ISPS series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Central planning--Social aspects.
- Central planning.
- Social engineering.
- Authoritarianism.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 445 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-432) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300070160
- 9780300078152
- OCLC:
- 37392803
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