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.