Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian high-modernist planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or a better life for the people.
Seeing Like a State
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
This book might be part of the Yale Agrarian Studies series.
Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian high-modernist planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or a better life for the people.
Hardcover, 446 pages
English language
Published March 29, 1998 by Yale University Press.
Subjects
- Central planning -- Social aspects
- Social engineering
- Authoritarianism
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