Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed
Scott, James C.
Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed - London Yale University Press 2020 - xiv, 445p.
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300246759/seeing-like-a-state/
"“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."
9780300246759(pbk.)
Government Policies
Central planning--Social aspects
Social engineering
338.9 / SCO
Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed - London Yale University Press 2020 - xiv, 445p.
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300246759/seeing-like-a-state/
"“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."
9780300246759(pbk.)
Government Policies
Central planning--Social aspects
Social engineering
338.9 / SCO