Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed

By:

Scott, James C

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London Yale University Press 2020Description: xiv, 445pISBN:

9780300246759(pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

338.9 SCO

Summary: "“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."

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Plaksha University Library	Social Science	338.9 SCO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	15/11/2023	004318

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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 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."

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