445 pages
English language
Published Aug. 25, 2010 by Yale University Press.
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
James C. Scott: Seeing Like a State (2010, Yale University Press)
445 pages
English language
Published Aug. 25, 2010 by Yale University Press.
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.