Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Fai
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The 20th century features many examples of grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. This book analyses cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields.
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“AÂ 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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“Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”-New Yorker
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“A tour de force.”- Charles Tilly, Columbia University
| Weight | 0.345 kg |
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| Dimensions | 19.7 × 12.7 × 3.7 cm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 464 |
| Language | English |
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| Dewey | 338.9 (edition:23) |
| Readership | Professional and scholarly / Code: H |
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