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

How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

by James C. Scott

1998·445 pages
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9781538552902

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Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian central planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or a better life for the people.

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