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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy St)
by Professor James C Scott
Binding: Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press
Weight: 1.4 pound
Dimension: H: 1.2 x L: 9 x W: 6.1 inches
ISBN 10: 0300078153
ISBN 13: 9780300078152
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Why have large-scale schemes to improve the human condition in the twentieth century so often gone awry? James C. Scott analyzes diverse failures in high-modernist, authoritarian state planning-collectivization in Russia, the building of Brasilia, compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, and others-and uncovers conditions common to all such planning disasters. What these failures teach us, he argues, is that any centrally managed social plan must recognize the importance of local customs and practical knowledge if it hopes to succeed.

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