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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

By James C. Scott

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
1998
ISBN
0300070160, 9780300070163
LCC
HD87.5 .S365 1998
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6231652 bytes)
Series
The Yale ISPS Series
Pages
230\230
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Why have large-scale schemes to improve the human condition in the twentieth century so often gone awry? James C. Scott analyzes diverse failures in high-modernist, authoritarian state planning-collectivization in Russia, the building of Brasilia, compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, and others-and uncovers conditions common to all such planning disasters. What these failures teach us, he argues, is that any centrally managed social plan must recognize the importance of local customs and practical knowledge if it hopes to succeed.

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