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.
Seeing Like a State
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy St)
Paperback, 464 pages
English language
Published Feb. 8, 1999 by Yale University Press.
Subjects
- Central government policies
- Constitution: government & the state
- Social welfare & social services
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Politics/International Relations
- Anthropology - Cultural
- Development - Economic Development
- Sociology - Social Theory
- Political Science / General
- Public Policy - Regional Planning
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