Seeing Like a State - How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)

"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 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

General

Imprint:	Yale University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Veritas Paperbacks
Release date:	May 2020
Authors:	James C. Scott
Dimensions:	196 x 127 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	464
ISBN-13:	978-0-300-24675-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Constitution, government & the state Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies
LSN:	0-300-24675-7
Barcode:	9780300246759

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