Seeing Like a State
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Polic…
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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-aContinue
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- English Books
- Paperback 464 Pages
- Edition: New Ed
- ISBN-10: 0300078153
- ISBN-13: 9780300078152
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Pub date: Feb 08, 1999
- Dimensions: 1484 mm x 1032 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover
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