Description: “One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review "A powerful, and in many insightful, explanation as to why grandiose programs of social reform, not to mention revolution, so often end in tragedy. . . . An important critique of visionary state planning."—Robert Heilbroner, Lingua Franca Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia UniversityThe Institution for Social and Policy Studies
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EAN: 9780300246759
UPC: 9780300246759
ISBN: 9780300246759
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Book Title: Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improv
Item Length: 19.6 cm
Subject Area: Social Services
Item Height: 196 mm
Item Width: 130 mm
Series: Veritas Paperbacks
Author: James C. Scott
Publication Name: Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Subject: Government
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 348 g
Number of Pages: 464 Pages
