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

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

"One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent...
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Author: James C. Scott
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Language: English
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by Scott, James C.

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

$26.34
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by Scott, James C.

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

$26.34
Author: James C. Scott
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"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

Author: James C. Scott
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 03/17/2020
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780300246759

About the Author
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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