"One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades."-John Gray, New York Times Book Review
"A powerful, and in many [ways] 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.
"Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit."-New Yorker
"A tour de force."-Charles Tilly, Columbia University
The Institution for Social and Policy Studies
| ISBN: | 9780300246759 |
| Publication date: | 5th May 2020 |
| Author: | James C Scott |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 464 pages |
| Series: | Veritas Paperbacks |
| Genres: |
Constitution: government and the state Central / national / federal government policies |
"One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades."-John Gray, New York Times Book Review
"A powerful, and in many [ways] 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.
"Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit."-New Yorker
"A tour de force."-Charles Tilly, Columbia University
The Institution for Social and Policy Studies
Seeing Like a State features in the following genres: Constitution: government and the state, Central / national / federal government policies
Seeing Like a State is available in Paperback
Seeing Like a State was written by James C Scott and published by Yale University Press
Seeing Like a State has 464 pages
Yes it is part of Veritas Paperbacks series
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