James C. Scott Seeing Like a State (Paperback) Veritas Paperbacks

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Seeing Like a StateCondition: NewEAN: 9780300246759ISBN: 9780300246759Publisher: Yale University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/12/2020Item Height: 197mmItem Length: 127mmItem Weight: 345gAuthor: James C. ScottLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have FailedISBN-10: 0300246757Description: “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 StudiesCountry/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Law & PoliticsBook Series: Veritas PaperbacksTopic: Social Sciences, Society & CultureRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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