Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by Scott, James C.

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300078152)

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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by Scott, James C.

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

$25.95
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by Scott, James C.

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

$25.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: James C. Scott
ISBN-10: 0300078153
ISBN-13: 9780300078152
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/08/1999
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.16w x 1.22d
By James C. Scott
By James C. Scott
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James C. Scott (1936-2024) was Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at Yale University. His many books include The Art of Not Being Governed, Domination and the Arts of Resistance, and Against the Grain.

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