Seeing Like a State

How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

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James C. Scott: Seeing Like a State (2008, Yale University Press)

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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.

464 pages

English language

Published Aug. 25, 2008 by Yale University Press.

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978-0-300-12878-9
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Subjects
  • Economic assistance, domestic
  • Social problems
  • Human services
  • State, the

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