Seeing Like a State

Name: Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Brand: Yale UP
SKU: 9780300246759
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How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

by James C. Scott

Yale UP · 2020

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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed is written by James C. Scott. This edition from Yale UP (2020) has 464 pages. The original work dates from 1998.

Its main subjects are Central planning, Social engineering, Social aspects of Central planning and Social aspects. Places discussed include Tanzania, Soviet Russia and Brasilia. People featured include V. I. Lenin, Jules Nyerere and Le Corbusier.

About the author: James C. Scott (1936–2024).