Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:James C. ScottSeries:Veritas PaperbacksPublish date:3/17/2020Pages:464
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300246759ISBN-10:300246757UPC:9780300246759Book Category:Political ScienceBook Subcategory:History & Theory, World, Public PolicySize:7.70 x 5.00 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.8Product ID:SC5M7HAEGE
"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 [ways] 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 University The Institution for Social and Policy Studies
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300246759ISBN-10:300246757UPC:9780300246759Book Category:Political ScienceBook Subcategory:History & Theory, World, Public PolicySize:7.70 x 5.00 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.8Product ID:SC5M7HAEGE
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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