Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
| AUTHOR | Scott, James C. |
| PUBLISHER | Yale University Press (03/17/2020) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
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"One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades."--John Gray, New York Times Book Review "A powerful, and in many [ways] insightful, explanation as to why grandiose programs of social reform, not to mention revolution, so often end in tragedy. . . . An important critique of visionary state planning."--Robert Heilbroner, Lingua Franca Hailed as "a magisterial critique of top-down social planning" by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail--sometimes catastrophically--in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. "Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit."--New Yorker "A tour de force."--Charles Tilly, Columbia University The Institution for Social and Policy Studies
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ISBN-13:
9780300246759
ISBN-10:
0300246757
Binding:
Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
464
Carton Quantity:
20
Product Dimensions:
5.00 x 1.30 x 7.70 inches
Weight:
0.80 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Bibliography,
Index,
Price on Product,
Illustrated
Country of Origin:
US
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BISAC Categories
Political Science | History & Theory - General
Political Science | World - General
Political Science | Public Policy - General
Dewey Decimal:
338.9
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"One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades."--John Gray, New York Times Book Review "A powerful, and in many [ways] insightful, explanation as to why grandiose programs of social reform, not to mention revolution, so often end in tragedy. . . . An important critique of visionary state planning."--Robert Heilbroner, Lingua Franca Hailed as "a magisterial critique of top-down social planning" by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail--sometimes catastrophically--in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. "Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit."--New Yorker "A tour de force."--Charles Tilly, Columbia University The Institution for Social and Policy Studies
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