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Seeing Like a State : How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy St)
Seeing Like a State How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed - The Institution for Social and Policy St
Author: James Scott
Why have large-scale schemes to improve the human condition in the twentieth century so often gone awry? James C. Scott analyzes diverse failures in high-modernist, authoritarian state planning-collectivization in Russia, the building of Brasilia, compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, and others-and uncovers conditions common to all such plann...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300078152
ISBN-10: 0300078153
Publication Date: 2/8/1999
Pages: 464
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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