Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed / James C. Scott.
In this wide-ranging and original book, James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. He argues that centrally managed social plans derail when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not - and cannot be -...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[1998]
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| Series: | Yale agrarian studies.
Yale ISPS series. |
| Subjects: |
Main Collection
| Call Number: |
HD87.5 .S365 1998 |
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| Status: | Available Request this item |