Seeing Like a State

How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

Hardcover, 446 pages

Published March 30, 1998 by Yale University Press.

ISBN:
978-0-300-07016-3
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OCLC Number:
97026556

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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.

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