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

James C. Scott

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed [Text] - London: Yale University Press, 1998. - 445 p. - The Yale ISPS Series .

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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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