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

By: Material type: TextSeries: The Yale ISPS SeriesPublication details: London: Yale University Press, 1998.Description: 445 pISBN:
  • 0300070160
Subject(s): Summary: 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.
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Книги University of World Economy and Diplomacy Aboniment 330.09 S 41 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 000000050873

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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.

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