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

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

James C. Scott

462 pages • first pub 1998 (view editions) user-added

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics—the twentieth century has been racked by gr...

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